[krumbie]

Personally, I like the state now better than a couple years ago, where it was a struggle to get Cairo.jl working because it was interacting with users' systems in weird ways. It admittedly takes much more harddrive space, sometimes to a silly extent. I'm not sure if it's technically possible to have weak binary dependencies, I think if Cairo the C library declares binary deps, we have to add them all (hence Pango, Fontconfig, etc. etc.).

By the way, we get very few installation issues nowadays. They usually have to do with either graphics drivers on Linux, or because people have somehow messed with their library load paths and pull in the wrong dylibs. From a maintainer's perspective it's nice not having to worry about all that too much.