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
