Re: cairo now default?

[Colin Baxter]

>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Baxter <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>> Robert Pluim <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>> On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 11:49:46 +0000, Colin Baxter <address@hidden> said:
    >>>> Itʼs better than the alternative, which is libXft, which is
    >>>> unmaintained and causes crashes.

    Colin> Ok, so be it.

    Colin> I still think this change, as it stands, is going to catch
    Colin> out a fair number of users. We will see.

    >> Why? Xft and Cairo should have the same font support, apart from
    >> bitmap fonts. Only people who've messed with font-backend might
    >> have issues, and there should be not be too many of those.

    Colin> I was thinking of a rather more mundane reason. For example,
    Colin> although Debian 9.11 has the right version of the harfbuzz
    Colin> dev library, Debian 8.11 doesn't. To me, Debian 8.11 does
    Colin> seem that old.

    Colin> Best wishes,

To me, Debian 8.11 does not seem that old

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