Re: no emacs/X binary packages considered bad, and worse than emacs with svg

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
>Right now building e.g emacs26 fails on pkgbuild because of librsvg
>because of rust because of (not enough randomness AND rust is piggy
>about randomness).  While that should be fixed, it's been almost two
>months, and as far as I know it isn't.

You could build with:

LIBRSVG_TYPE=c

I'm using emacs26 to send this.

>Not having emacsNN binary packages is unfriendly to users (I know an
>actual user who wanted to install emacs26 and failed to find it,
>wondering why emacs21 was the newest on NetBSD).  I do not know of
>significant use of svg within x11-flavored emacs.  Arguably most use is
>just text and menus, and then some jpg/tiff in mail.  Perhaps there is
>web browsing involving it.

Mail is often html these days, I guess it could contain some SVG.