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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 13:18:25 -0500
> 
> >> >> Every GNU/Linux distribution provides Xft.
> >> > Thanks.  What about non-GNU Posix hosts that run X?
> >> AFAIK the issue isn't GNU-vs-other but old-X vs new-X.  Xft is basically
> >> part of what is expected of a recent enough X11 installation.  We could
> >> drop ftx support from `master`s `configure` and see if anyone notices.
> > We need to disable it by default first.
> 
> If we do it with a trivial change that we can easily revert before we
> start pretesting Emacs-27, I see no reason why we'd first need to change
> the default.

Experience shows that the complaints come in too late, and the hope
that we can easily revert such a change is frequently thwarted.