We would like to reduce the number of net-libs/webkit-gtk slots. Please check if it is possible to migrate from net-libs/webkit-gtk:4 to net-libs/webkit-gtk:4.1. This should be possible (with minor build-system patching, see https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=ea0bb7cd3b47dd02d964a5c27c010eeaea8cc8b1 for example) if net-libs/libsoup:2.4 is not pulled in by the package or any of its dependencies.
FWIW, switching to webkit-gtk:4.1 is just a quality-of-life improvement for users that may allow them to get back down to 1 slot of webkit-gtk. Removing dependencies on webkit-gtk:4 is certainly not critical, so if it's not possible to do at the moment or if removing these features is undesirable, no worries. I just wanted to get it on people's radar.
A level of quality I aspire to. Having to compile 3 copies of webkit-gtk each time is not fun. Alas I think it will still be 2 copies for a while - and now a start data for GTK 5 development is announced... We only lose 2 plugins because of libsoup-2.4 and one of those is an update checker that I am glad to remove, the other for uploading to pastebin sites but with no relevant code updates for 5.5 years I wonder how useful it is. I wasn't going to push for stabilisation of this one but let's give people who want the markdown plugin the option (everyone else can just "-markdown" anyway). I have installed it.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=054d7a9d4ea32989113d377840cd23c85674746b commit 054d7a9d4ea32989113d377840cd23c85674746b Author: Chris Mayo <aklhfex@gmail.com> AuthorDate: 2023-02-09 19:36:37 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-02-17 05:21:36 +0000 dev-util/geany-plugins: support net-libs/webkit-gtk:4.1 geniuspaste and updatechecker plugins are disabled because they require libsoup-2.4. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/893688 Signed-off-by: Chris Mayo <aklhfex@gmail.com> Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/29507 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> .../files/geany-plugins-1.38-webkit2gtk-4.1.patch | 20 +++ .../geany-plugins/geany-plugins-1.38-r410.ebuild | 136 +++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 156 insertions(+)
