SPECS (AC-branch): pidgin.spec - AC-branched

Fryderyk Dziarmagowski freetz at gmx.net
Sun Oct 21 16:17:18 CEST 2007


On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 13:59:17 +0200
Tomasz Pala <gotar at polanet.pl> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 08:44:59 +0200, Fryderyk Dziarmagowski wrote:
> 
> > > git://people.freedesktop.org/~macslow/glitz-test
> > > 
> > > Try to run that without glitz support in cairo.
> > 
> > ...and this is the very last example of using cairo with glitz
> > backend.
> 
> It just means that glitz backend is not useless.

Nobody says it useless. It's just yet another redundant dependency.
Whole backend is just an example of using glitz to accelerate RENDER
extension with OpenGL. All main distros are aware of it and nobody
ships cairo with glitz backend these days. Even more glitz is slowly
becoming obsolete, there are better 'not heavily bound to hardware'
ways to accelerate RENDER.

> > Not even in PLD repo
> 
> Being or not in PLD repo has nothing to do.

Can say same about "is not useless".

Pushing it in AC will make every single gtk+ app depending on glitz, but
none of those apps will *ever* make use of it.

-- 
Fryderyk Dziarmagowski


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