Hello,
The rationale is briefly explained at:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/910363
As gdk-pixbuf upstream is not including support for new formats,
people
usually need to manually enable "gdk-pixbuf" USE for important libs
such as libheif, libjxl, or libavif.
At least for Gnome environments, I think that the USE could be
globally
enabled as gdk-pixbuf is used everywhere and the dependency will be
installed anyway.
Any issues with enabling it for gnome profiles?
On Sat, 2024-08-03 at 16:04 +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote:
Hello,
The rationale is briefly explained at:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/910363
As gdk-pixbuf upstream is not including support for new formats,
people
usually need to manually enable "gdk-pixbuf" USE for important libs
such as libheif, libjxl, or libavif.
At least for Gnome environments, I think that the USE could be
globally
enabled as gdk-pixbuf is used everywhere and the dependency will be installed anyway.
Any issues with enabling it for gnome profiles?
gdk-pixbuf modules are a bit of an attack surface, so I feel a bit
uneasy about enabling it by default globally. Per-package enabling (package.use) feels a bit safer to me.
It's also not a global USE flag and is used with different meaning
(e.g. in swaybg, rxvt-unicode, w3m), though that might be more of an
argument for default enabling for all packages in gnome profiles, as gdk-pixbuf is there anyways.
Mart
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