Sounds like a weak excuse. Cairo is implemented on top of software buffers that plymouth/pango/any-font-renderers should be writing to directly. Hence Cairo should not be involved, ideally.
I would say Cairo is what needs to be removed from Plymouth to remove most dependencies.
Sounds like a weak excuse. Cairo is implemented on top of software buffers that plymouth/ pango/any- font-renderers should be writing to directly. Hence Cairo should not be involved, ideally.
I would say Cairo is what needs to be removed from Plymouth to remove most dependencies.