QtWebkit:5 and ruby

Angrychile · Apprentice Joined: 27 Oct 2009 Posts: 234

Just curious, is ruby absolutely necessary for the installation of QtWebkit 5? Or have the maintainers just not make a use flag for it.
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kensington · Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2015 5:50 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately it is required at build time only. See bug #538450 for more information.

ct85711 · Veteran Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 1759

Personally, I think it's stupid that upstream made it a dependency (also why I refuse to allow qtwebkit5 on my systems, as I don't want another parser that will only waste space and be worthless me to).

I recall running into a post to upstream's devs about this, and iirc, they said no they won't remove that dependency because it's too hard to do (or I think more of they are too lazy to).