Re: pixbuf<->cairo_surface_t conversion

[Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau gmail com>]

2010/9/3 Alberto Ruiz <aruiz gnome org>:
>
> Well, since currently gdk-pixbuf comes inside Gtk+, and Gtk+ depends
> on cairo. In effect, you already depend on cairo.
> So in effect, you will have one dependency less, Gtk+. This should
> make your dependency-phobic users happy.

This really depends, my distribution (Mandriva) puts gdk-pixbuf in a
separate binary package. Thus cairo is needed to generate the
gdk-pixbuf package because it's built as part of gtk+, but for the
final user, there is already no such requirement as installing gtk+ to
get gdk-pixbuf.

Christophe