HarfBuzz 2.0 Released For Advancing Open-Source Text Shaping

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I thought it was great and wanted to use it in one of my projects, until i found out what it depends on.

ldd /usr/lib64/libharfbuzz.so
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fffe4ccc000)
libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007f490c79e000)
libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f490c488000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00007f490c1d4000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f490bdea000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f490cb39000)
libpcre.so.1 => /lib64/libpcre.so.1 (0x00007f490bb78000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f490b959000)
libbz2.so.1 => /lib64/libbz2.so.1 (0x00007f490b749000)
libpng16.so.16 => /usr/lib64/libpng16.so.16 (0x00007f490b516000)
libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00007f490b2ff000)


Yea.. I just want to render some text, thx.

...and that's when I take a look at the list of Gentoo USE flags (i.e.: optional features) for harfbuzz:

* Found these USE flags for media-libs/harfbuzz-2.0.0:
U I
+ + abi_x86_32    : 32-bit (x86) libraries
+ + cairo         : Enable support for the cairo graphics library
- - debug         : Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see
                    https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces
+ + fontconfig    : Support for configuring and customizing font access via media-libs/fontconfig
+ + glib          : Compile with GLib Unicode support
+ + graphite      : Use graphite to render complex non-Roman writing systems
+ + icu           : Enable ICU (Internationalization Components for Unicode) support, using dev-libs/icu
+ + introspection : Add support for GObject based introspection
- - static-libs   : Build static versions of dynamic libraries as well
- - test          : Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently)
+ + truetype      : Add support for FreeType and/or FreeType2 fonts