[Bug 251014] x11-wm/openbox Prefer graphics/ligvrsvg2-rust over graphics/librsvg2

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Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at FreeBSD.org> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to p5B2E9A8F from comment #0)
> please make graphics/librsvg2 a port option choice
Technically it is optional in Openbox, albeit enabled by default.  The problem
is more serious for ports where librsvg2 is not an optional dependency, and
thus cannot be easily turned off.

With this patch and DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=librsvg2=legacy, I can finally build
Openbox again with default options, thank you Tobias.  Prior to this change it
was impossible because apparently this Lenovo L470 laptop of mine with 8GB RAM
is not potent enough.

> I could lash out for a nice rant but I'm not going to do that.
I'll just say that may it be an example of why one should *not* try to rewrite
popular open-source C library (which can be compiled even on, I don't know,
TI-85?) in a "better" tongue that requires 100500 GB of RAM just to build
itself, not to mention it being self-hosted and thus requiring bootstrap on
every architecture.  This could be tolerable for leaf ports, but really
horrible for maintaining reusable open-source components serving as
dependencies for vast variety of software.

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