Flatpak-building a legacy GTK2 app that uses WebKit

[Bastien Nocera]

On Mon, 2019-01-07 at 11:51 -0500, Dominic Delabruere wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 11:40 AM Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net>
> wrote:
> > I don't think you should care too much about whether Geoclue
> > support is
> > built into your build of WebKit, because there's just no way this
> > program would be allowed access to the network, given the number of
> > security issues a GTK2 WebKit is likely to have. Most of the rest
> > of
> > the WebKit dependencies should already be easily available.
> 
> Ah, yeah, that makes sense. Not looking forward to 9-hour builds, but
> I might try it if enough other users are interested. I'll look to how
> the issues was solved for the GIMP Flatpak.

As long as you don't change the build options or the dependencies for
WebKit, and you use --ccache, it should take less than 9 hours.
Starting off from GIMP's WebKit snippet is probably a good way to only
waste those 9 hours once :)

Cheers