Re: harfbuzz 2f72162: Fix crash in the Cairo build

[Robert Pluim]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> Experience shows that the complaints come in too late, and the hope
>> that we can easily revert such a change is frequently thwarted.
>
> AFAIK it's been "impossible" to compile Emacs with ftx backend but
> without the xft library since 2009.
>
> So, maybe I should rather argue that it's high time we scrap the
> code altogether since it's been useless and unused for 10 years now.

+1