Re: Building gpgme with Qt support?

[Mark H Weaver]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 08:23:56PM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> since version 1.7 gpgme [1] includes both the C++ bindings (former
>> package: gpgmepp) and the Qt-Framework API (former package qgpgme, not
>> in guix).
>> 
>> Our gpgme package is currently build *without* support for Qt:
>> 
>> checking for GPGME_QT... checking for GPGME_QTTEST... ./configure: line 
>> 18672: : command not found
>> configure: WARNING:
>> ***
>> *** Qt5 (Qt5Core) not found Qt Binding will be disabled.
>> ***
>> 
>> The major draw-back of adding these bindings is that this would install
>> qtcore (and all it's dependencies) for any application using gpgme.
>> 
>> How can we avoid this?
>
> Could we make a new package qt-gpgme that inherits from gpgme and provides a
> QT-enabled gpgme??

If there's a need for Qt-enabled gpgme, then I think this is the right
approach.  I feel strongly that our primary gpgme package should *not*
depend on Qt.

     Thanks,
       Mark