833810 – net-libs/webkit-gtk: add eme-free flag

Bug 833810 - net-libs/webkit-gtk: add eme-free flag

Summary: net-libs/webkit-gtk: add eme-free flag

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team

URL:	https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull...
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Reported:	2022-02-20 20:55 UTC by gentoo
Modified:	2022-02-21 20:53 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description gentoo 2022-02-20 20:55:38 UTC

This PR adds an eme-free flag, matching www-client/firefox, to webkit-gtk

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable or disable USE Flag
2. Build works
Actual Results:  
Build works

Expected Results:  
Build works

Build works

Comment 1 Dennis Nezic 2022-02-21 15:32:29 UTC

What's eme?

Comment 2 gentoo 2022-02-21 15:40:58 UTC

Encrypted media extensions (i.e. drm)

Comment 3 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev

2022-02-21 20:53:06 UTC

This option will not give you any sort of widevine or other DRM support, only a (toy) API that implements ClearKey encryption (that is, no encryption at all). To get something like widevine going, it would need a bunch of extra code (NOT provided by this flag or anything open source), contracts with certain legal entities and so on.

Therefore without any real value on the option to enable this flag provided or presented, I'm inclined to just close this and not do anything here.

Let me know if you have any practical value in this option that would warrant changing the ebuild.