[MacPorts] #44414: cairo +quartz pango +quartz

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#44414: cairo +quartz pango +quartz
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 Reporter:  vtjnash@…    |      Owner:  macports-tickets@…
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  Low          |  Milestone:
Component:  ports        |    Version:  2.3.1
 Keywords:               |       Port:
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 Since cairo and pango seem perfectly able to install themselves with both
 cairo and pango support enabled, it seems unnecessary (and in some cases
 detrimental) to artificially limit the capabilities of the installed code.
 Instead it seems a better default for these libraries would be:

 +quartz +x11

 Or to just eliminate these two options altogether.

 As mentioned in previous tickets (e.g.
 https://trac.macports.org/ticket/31148#comment:3), in the distant past
 this was not possible. however, now the existence of these options just
 seem like an unnecessary annoyance to the user. It feels like this is just
 a historical artifact: is there a more recent reason that this must still
 be the case?

 (Similarly, the restriction preventing building gtk3 +x11 +quartz seems to
 be artificial, since the backend can be selected at runtime via
 environment variable: GDK_BACKEND=quartz
 https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-running.html)

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/44414>
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