Changeset fc0828f for xsoft/graphweb/falkon.xml

Timestamp:

03/10/2021 03:37:23 AM (3 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

8ff2771

Parents:

2ee8145

Message:

Add cautions to the QtWebEngine and Falkon pages.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@24352 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• xsoft/graphweb/falkon.xml (modified) (1 diff)

xsoft/graphweb/falkon.xml

@@ -41 +41 @@
       functionality).
     </para>
+
+    <caution>
+      <para>
+        Falkon re;lies on QtWebEngine. That uses a forked copy of chromium, and
+        is therefore vulnerable to many issues found there. The Qt developers
+        have always preferred to make releases at the same time as the rest of Qt
+        (rather than adding emergency fixes). Now that they are keen to move to
+        Qt6, the 5.15.3 and later Qt-5.15 releases are initially only available
+        to paying customers. QtWebEngine is something of an exception because of
+        its LGPL licence, but the source in git and its forked submodules is not
+        neatly packaged. Until someone is able to build this on BLFS, using
+        falkon leaves you open you to unpatched security vulnerabilities.
+      </para>
+    </caution>
 
     &lfs101_checked;