Re: Whether and how to choose pkg freetype2 over base?

[Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 10:52:45AM +0000, nia wrote:
> It sounds like your system is already messed up. fontconfig should
> be supplied through native X, mixing them probably isn't a good idea.
> 
> I'd advise tryng to find the actual source of your problem rather than
> trying to fix the workarounds.

Some packages seem to have exceeded the fontconfig version that the base
supplies. E.g.

cairo:
.include "../../fonts/fontconfig/buildlink3.mk"

the fontconfig buildlink has

BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.fontconfig+=      fontconfig>=2.11.91
BUILDLINK_ABI_DEPENDS.fontconfig+=      fontconfig>=2.13.1nb1

While the base has:
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      20 Oct 19  2020
/usr/X11R7/lib/libfontconfig.so -> libfontconfig.so.2.3

So far I have added only freetype2 in PREFER_PKGSRC and builds of all
broken packages are going on. Will update if I get more observations.

PREFER_PKGSRC = freetype2

-- 
Mayuresh