Re: cairo: xcb implies x11

Thomas Klausner <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.packages
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 06:56:14AM +0100, Michael van Elst wrote:
> [email protected] (Greg Troxel) writes:
> 
> >Reading DESCR for libxcb, it's an alternative implementation for Xlib.
> 
> libxcb used to be an alternative API to the X protocol. The original
> Xlib then has been reimplemented as a shim on top of libxcb. Since
> about 2012 you always depend on libxcb and building cairo with x11
> but without xcb support makes little sense.

Thank you, that makes a very good case for just merging the xcb option
into the x11 one, which I've just done.
 Thomas
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