[MacPorts] #15558: Provide quartz-only variant of cairo port
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#15558: Provide quartz-only variant of cairo port
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Reporter: macports at flyn.org | Owner: macports-tickets at lists.macosforge.org
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: Low | Milestone: Port Enhancements
Component: ports | Version: 1.6.0
Keywords: |
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The cairo port currently provides three variants: universal, which builds
all of cairo's backends (e.g., freetype and quartz on Mac OS X); glitz,
which (in addition) enables glitz and no_x11, which disables X11
functionality.
I would like to see a pure quartz variant. It is desirable to have only
one font subsystem (quartz). This is not yet generally feasible because
many applications do not support the quartz back-end. However, a pure
quartz variant would allow developers to easily build an environment from
which they could continue to port applications to support the quartz back-
end. Broken, for lack of a better word, applications would immediately
reveal themselves as they would not build and/or execute.
If a user is only interested in a subset of applications that do support
the quartz back-end, then he may install them without many unnecessary
dependencies.
Of course, the universal build should remain the default for quite some
time (if not forever).
This was discussed in ticket #15052. I opened a separate ticket so that it
may be tracked.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/15558>
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