#15558: Provide quartz-only variant of cairo port -------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Reporter: macports@flyn.org | Owner: macports-tickets@lists.macosforge.org Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Low | Milestone: Port Enhancements Component: ports | Version: 1.6.0 Keywords: | -------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- The cairo port currently provides three variants: universal, which builds all of cairo's backends (e.g., freetype and quartz on Mac OS X); glitz, which (in addition) enables glitz and no_x11, which disables X11 functionality. I would like to see a pure quartz variant. It is desirable to have only one font subsystem (quartz). This is not yet generally feasible because many applications do not support the quartz back-end. However, a pure quartz variant would allow developers to easily build an environment from which they could continue to port applications to support the quartz back- end. Broken, for lack of a better word, applications would immediately reveal themselves as they would not build and/or execute. If a user is only interested in a subset of applications that do support the quartz back-end, then he may install them without many unnecessary dependencies. Of course, the universal build should remain the default for quite some time (if not forever). This was discussed in ticket #15052. I opened a separate ticket so that it may be tracked. -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/15558> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS