On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 07:20:30PM +0000, Ken Moffat via blfs-book wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 12:26:09PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-book wrote:
> > On 3/16/21 10:00 PM, BLFS Trac via blfs-book wrote:
> > > #14729: qtwebengine after 5.15.2
> >
> > If it was up to me, I'd just drop qtwebengine and the only thing in BLFS
> > that uses it, falkon.
> >
> > -- Bruce
>
> Chromium itself is a nasty mess, and qt's use of it as a submodule
> (i.e. forking it) adds to the problems. Unfortunately, I need a
> second graphical browser and until now qtwebengine has usually worked
> adequately (seamonkey works but doesn't seem to have any way to
> disable adverts, e.g. in online gmail).
>
I'm just about to have a go at fixing this, but I now have doubts
that anyone apart from me builds falkon - when I put a 'Caution'
into the book (because at that time I could not work out why it was
not building) I wrote:
Falkon re;lies on QtWebEngine. That uses a forked copy ...
We all have difficulty proof-reading our own text, but I've not seen
any reports about that spurious ';' caused by hitting the 'l' and
the key next to it on my uk keyboard (';').
ĸen
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