cairo reqs

Elan Ruusamäe glen at pld-linux.org
Sun Jun 7 19:55:35 CEST 2015


On 31.05.2015 14:02, Tomasz Pala wrote:
> is that all really necessary? Mesa-whatever, libdrm, xorg-whatever
> (pciaccess), hwdata, pciutils, kmod, wayland just to have rrdtool seems
> to be some massive overkill for drawing some stats...
...
> Why did we enable this GL backend? We should ship at least a version
> without gl, tee and xml as they are mostly useless in real life:
> http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2009-August/018060.html
> (oops, tee seems to be required by firefox). While xml doesn't pull much
> overhead, it is all about this gl... As the upstream didn't manage to
> split this for 4 years now:
>
> http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2010-December/021277.html
>
> couldn't we just disable this *experimental* backend?
go ahead and disable experimental backends. i don't see anyone objecting
and the GL deps slipping into my servers is also what i despise.


-- 
glen



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