Re: Large reduction in portability of some KDE packages
On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 02:24:16PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 5/30/20 2:17 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 01:58:02PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> >> Hello!
> >>
> >> I was wondering whether there is a way around this large reduction in portability
> >> of KDE that occurred recently [1]?
> >> ...
> >
> > "recently" was 3 years ago, it is already this way in buster.
>
> As far as I can see, some of the packages used to use qtwebkit not too long
> ago which is perfectly portable to all architectures.
The one you linked moved to qtwebengine 3 years ago,
and around that time a large part of KDE moved.
> > There is no way around it with reasonable effort,
> > unless Google support riscv64 in their browser.
> The way around it is to not use Google technologies because Google doesn't
> care about open source and the community unless it serves their own
> interests.
I would also personally prefer if KDE would go back to qtwebkit,
but distributions can only use whatever upstream is choosing.
KDE upstream has the right to make such choices if they think
it delivers a better KDE experience.
> Adrian
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