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On 11/30/2013 11:01 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Why is gobject-introspection always accompanied by libffi?  Should
> libffi be a propagated input of gobject-introspection?

I've just checked that. Atk, pango (and similar packages) do not require 
libffi. However, if they are compiled without libffi, then the gtk+ 
build will fail.

Cyril.