On Wed, Oct 7, 2026 at 10:40 AM Steven A. Falco <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 10/7/26 02:55 AM, Milan Crha via devel wrote:
> > By the way, tons of packages depend on the webkit2gtk4.1 in Fedora,
> > try:
> >
> >      dnf repoquery --whatrequires "webkit2gtk4.1" --recursive \
> >          --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=rawhide --srpm
> >
> > Surely many might be just a transitive dependency, still the list is
> > very long, from my point of view. Most of them _not_ being GNOME at
> > all. Judging from GNOME does not seem right.
> I agree.  For example, kicad is on that list because it uses wxGTK which uses 
> webkit2gtk4.1.  And even rpm is on the list.  Seems like this is a critical 
> package.  Perhaps it can be disentangled but that would not be a minor effort.
>

Porting to GTK4 is not trivial, given the number of deleted APIs in
GTK4. I took a stab at this for the obs-webkitgtk plugin a couple
years ago and I couldn't do it due to missing functionality. I'd
rather not see the GTK3 variant go away...



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