Re: [PATCH v7 00/23] Make Pixman an optional dependency

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi

On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 9:29 PM Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
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> 30.10.2023 13:47, marcandre.lureau@redhat.com wrote:
> > From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
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> > Hi,
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> > QEMU system emulators can be made to compile and work without Pixman.
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> Out of curiocity (not opposing to this in any way), - why pixman is such a
> big dependency to require quite a lot of code refactoring?

It's not a big dependency (70k loc), but it's one we can drop to a
have smaller UI-less qemu. The changes to accomodate an optional
pixman are imho fairly small.

Anton, are there other reasons?

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Marc-André Lureau