Bug 537918 – x11-libs/libsvg-cairo, media-libs/libsvg and media-gfx/xsvg removal request

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Pacho Ramos 2015-01-26 20:47:55 UTC]

This would allow us to drop x11-libs/libsvg-cairo and media-libs/libsvg that, as explained at http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/libsvg.git/plain/dead.package

libsvg was a split from librsvg, working to add a cairo backend for rendering
SVG.  libsvg is no longer maintained and the author encourages librsvg to
be used instead, which is now in core.  The API is not compatible but they
have similar capabilities.

This package was originally added to help developers working with compiz.
Since then compiz has been patched to use librsvg instead making this package
no longer necessary.

See discussion referenced below:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=8108060&forum_id=12476

[Comment 1 Pacho Ramos 2015-03-29 14:01:58 UTC]

+  29 Mar 2015; Pacho Ramos <[e-mail]> DirectFB-1.7.6.ebuild:
+  Disable svg support as it relies on obsolete libsvg-cairo (#537918)
+

[Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2015-03-29 14:02:21 UTC]

1.7.6 version should be stabilized too... looks like it could be done in bug 510472...

[Comment 3 Blake Leverett 2015-10-14 16:55:26 UTC]

Yes, please remove or mask xsvg.  I spent a lot of time trying to get it to install (after using it for years), which led to this bug report, which led to finding wxsvg, which is a better program anyway.

[Comment 4 Pacho Ramos 2016-10-01 07:27:47 UTC]

removed