Package request: Re-add linux-wallpaperengine

[Pandapip1]

linux-wallpaperengine was removed due to depending on an unmaintained library with lots of critical CVEs (#323821; Almamu/linux-wallpaperengine#204). Now that dependency has been replaced with one that's actually secure, it should be re-added.

[LovingMelody]

cc @eclairevoyant you were previously the maintainer for this package, do you wish to re-add / be re-added to the maintainers for this?

[Pandapip1]

I'm pretty sure they quit nixpkgs

[Frontear]

Pretty surprising the entire derivation was removed rather than marked insecure..

[LovingMelody]

It looked like they were struggling to get the package to even build based on its original commit history after the CEF dependency was added. Likely what lead to it being removed.

[Pandapip1]

Pretty surprising the entire derivation was removed rather than marked insecure..

The rationale was that the vulnerabilities were pretty bad, and that the entire point of the program was to run user-generated content; and that said content had plenty of surface area to try to exploit those vulnerabilities. It was a "you really shouldn't use this under any circumstances"-type deal. Hence why it was removed.

[g-libardi]

Hello, I apologize if this isn’t the appropriate place, but I couldn’t find a discussion regarding Wallpaper Engine. If anyone is interested in using the version from the pull request before it's approved, you can do so with the following command:

nix profile install github:NixOS/nixpkgs/563f07d52d6ec4a48f1e0fa008194d00d99ea2cf#linux-wallpaperengine

This works with the experimental Nix CLI, and the link should also function within Nix files when used with the appropriate function.