Around 12 o'clock on Feb 17, Keith Packard wrote:

> Yes, iconv is a run-time requirement for the libxml2 library.  One strong 
> possibility is to move from libxml2 to expat -- another XML parsing 
> library. That library is much smaller and has no "unusual" dependencies, 
> leaving the data interpretation to the application.  Libxml2 is 
> significantly easier to use, especially for applications wanting to edit 
> the configuration, but it may be worth the effort for font configuration 
> to switch to expat to avoid new dependencies.

I've gone ahead and recoded fontconfig to use expat instead of libxml2; 
I'll import expat into the tree and have that built.  Applications for
configuring fonts will need to use libxml2 as expat has no provisions for 
XML output.

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        Compaq Cambridge Research Lab


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