Subject: Re: bug#29736: i686: webkit not usable

From: Konrad Hinsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2022 20:24:25 +0100

Am 05/01/2022 um 08:41 schrieb zimoun:
> Since the last message was from 2018 and, to my knowledge*, nothing
> related was reported recently, I am closing.

For information, here's a lengthy discussion of WebKit crashes in the 
Nyxt browser when built under Guix:

https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/issues/1883

TL;DR: you have to add the packages gst-plugins-good and gst-plugins-bad 
if you want WebKit-based browsers to work in Guix. Otherwise WebKit 
complains about lack of WebVTT handling on many Web sites and just gives 
up. Adding both packages as a propagated input to WebKit should work - 
but maybe some people would not be happy to have gst-plugins-bad as a 
dependency, and prefer to have crashes on some Web sites.

I have no idea if this is related to the 2018 bug of course!

Cheers,

   Konrad.