Bug 793935

Summary:	media-gfx/digikam make dev-qt/qtwebengine dependency optional
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Vasilis Lourdas <bugs>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugs, kde, krinpaus
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Vasilis Lourdas 2021-06-02 18:24:00 UTC

Currently, digikam requires dev-qt/qtwebengine as a dependency (it's listed in COMMON_DEPEND and enabled the ENABLE_QWEBENGINE application flag). Since this package has caused a lot of pain (see bug #669082), would it be possible to turn this dependency to a USE flag? I have modified version 7.1.0 and removed the dependency and have turned ENABLE_QWEBENGINE to off and the application works fine without it. I will do the same with digikam 7.2.0.

Thank you.

Comment 1 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev

2021-06-02 19:22:32 UTC

No. What this does is use QtWebKit instead, which is much worse and in the process of being removed. If it worked in your case then simply by chance because qtwebkit was already installed.

From upstream build system:
> option(ENABLE_QWEBENGINE "Build digiKam with QWebEngine instead of QWebKit (default=ON)"