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Looking at the build scripts, there appears to be a bit of functionality that is in freetype that harfbuzz wants to use. (Otherwise, why would harfbuzz want to use anything out of freetype in the first place?) To fix the circular dependency, you'd have to pull out that bit and put it into a third project that both harfbuzz and freetype can use.
That would require the harfbuzz and freetype teams to communicate with each other.
yes, after researching a bit the mailing lists, it seems that there have been some attempts but unsuccessfully until today.
or, after some time the people have simply forgotten, distributions do what ever they do, create workarounds if required, disable features, or simply don't realize the problem, and nothing changes.
just fixed an issue in sbbdep, on Slackware 14.2 we seem to have circular dependencies, now I detect them and this is interesting.
This isn't exactly on topic (which is solved anyway), but your post and some other recent ones about sbbdep convinced me to try it out. Thank you! It's a really great tool. I was able to use it to trim down my KDE installation to just the applications I want. That saved me a bunch of clutter in my application menu and a bit of hard disk space too.
This isn't exactly on topic (which is solved anyway), but your post and some other recent ones about sbbdep convinced me to try it out. Thank you! It's a really great tool. I was able to use it to trim down my KDE installation to just the applications I want. That saved me a bunch of clutter in my application menu and a bit of hard disk space too.
thank you for the feedback! I am glad you like sbbdep and find it useful.
I was able to use it to trim down my KDE installation to just the applications I want.
I just want to say also that I don't recommend doing this, but I just wanted to see if it would work. With sbbdep and some careful accounting, it wasn't too difficult.
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