RE: hey, remember the platform?

>it's been a while since the last missive about this.  here's=20
>some misguided nonsense I said last time around, and possibly=20
>equally misguided current opinion:
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>> However, I also got from xdc that the package set under=20
>consideration for
>> the platform is: fontconfig, gstreamer, dbus, hal, cairo,=20
>maybe pkgconfig.=20
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>fontconfig and pkgconfig still sound like good ideas.

>  and cairo isn't being used in KDE, so it's=20
>right out of any list of de-facto adopted code.

Just curious what would change your view of this (not
questioning it, it still seems too early to me as well).
Is "in KDE" always a requirement?  I'm hearing a lot of
pretty key apps starting to use cairo, including=20
OpenOffice and Firefox - it's not mainstream for either
AFAIK.  Does something like that end up tipping the
balance?