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Bug 262120

Summary: x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.5 should (optionally) depend on cairo
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Thomas Green <thomasgr33n>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Thomas Green 2009-03-11 12:49:58 UTC
The 'modetest' test application that is compiled (but not installed) with libdrm includes optional cairo support, starting with version 2.4.5. I'd imagine that this could be enabled/disabled with a USE flag, rather than letting the configure script detect whether cairo is present - which is what seems to happen now.
Comment 1 RĂ©mi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-03-12 16:23:01 UTC
Not really a bug. The "modetest" utility is not installed so it makes no sense for us to check for cairo or to add a USE flag. And even if upstream offered the option in ./configure, I think I would hard-disable it: the potential for cyclic dependencies is too important.

Thanks anyway :)