On 25. 8. 2016 18:14, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>> Similar dependency cycles (still) exist in Arch Linux, so I assume they're 
>> fine. See
>> <https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/harfbuzz/> and 
>> <https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/freetype2/>.
> 
>> Cairo seems to have been solved there though, so maybe that would be good to 
>> transfer to our PKGBUILDs.
>
> Did you mean Cygwin rather than Cairo in that last comment?

No, I meant this:

>>> warning: mingw-w64-x86_64-cairo will be installed before its 
>>> mingw-w64-x86_64-fontconfig dependency
>>>
>>> warning: mingw-w64-x86_64-cairo will be installed before its 
>>> mingw-w64-x86_64-freetype dependency

And that `cairo` in Arch Linux doesn't seem to be in a dependency cycle anymore.

> 1. Build a preliminary version of freetype without harfbuzz.
> 2. Build harfbuzz that depends on that preliminary version.
> 3. Build a final freetype version that depends on that harfbuzz.

Yes. If someone wants to build these packages themselves, they either need to 
install the pre-built dependencies first, or follow the steps above.

-- 
David Macek

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