Re: cairo: xcb implies x11

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%gatalith.at@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 06:56:14AM +0100, Michael van Elst wrote:
> gdt%lexort.com@localhost (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