[cairo] Splitting the cairo backends up so they can be in separate packages?

[Stuart Axon]

[Apologies for missing the end of my mail out]
The end goal would be to separately package the backends - so if you just want an image or pdf backend, you wouldn't need to have xlib installed just to install cairo.

S++ 

    On Friday, December 6, 2019, 5:02:13 PM GMT, Stuart Axon <stuaxo2 at yahoo.com> wrote:  
 
 I was wondering how hard it would be to split up cairo by backend, would it be feasible to build it so there instead of libcairo.so, there is libcairo-${backend}.so, e.g.
libcairo-image.so
libcairo-xcb.solibcairo-pdf.so
etc..?

Any idea what I would need to change to make it build like this ?
(Also, any problems that could arise).

If it could be split up, these could be packaged separately, so if you just want the image backend, you wouldn't need.  
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