dependency champion?

[Les Mikesell]

Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Henk Breimer wrote:
>> I fully understand what caused this.
>>
>> My next question would be : "what would happen if such a helper program
>> for every small lanquage were included in the same way?"
> 
> Pango *is* a helper for every language.  Thai just happens to be one 
> case where the functionality required for rendering their language 
> existed already and could be reused, rather than requiring the Pango 
> team to write it themselves.
> 
> This is how software is *supposed* to work.

You mean all optional things are supposed to be linked whether needed at 
runtime or not?

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