Agreed.

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 11:08 AM, George Wright <geo...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> I'm looking to remove the option to build mozilla-central without Skia.
>
> Currently we default to Skia being disabled, and enable it using
> --enable-skia. This is problematic because all of our officially supported
> build configurations enable Skia, and as such the Skia-is-disabled build has
> been buggy for quite some time. This has manifested most recently in bug
> 1296524.
>
> In the past year, Skia has moved from being an optional part of our graphics
> code to being a core, indispensable module. We are actively pursuing making
> it the default backend in almost all canvas and content configurations; it
> is already the default software canvas option on all platforms and will soon
> be for all software-backed content as well.
>
> To this end, I'd like to remove support for building mozilla-central without
> Skia as I think it should now be considered an integral part of our code.
>
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