Intent to deprecate: Building mozilla-central without Skia enabled

[George Wright]

I'm looking to remove the option to build mozilla-central without Skia.

Currently we default to Skia being disabled, and enable it using
--enable-skia. This is problematic because all of our officially
supported build configurations enable Skia, and as such the
Skia-is-disabled build has been buggy for quite some time. This has
manifested most recently in bug 1296524.

In the past year, Skia has moved from being an optional part of our
graphics code to being a core, indispensable module. We are actively
pursuing making it the default backend in almost all canvas and content
configurations; it is already the default software canvas option on all
platforms and will soon be for all software-backed content as well.

To this end, I'd like to remove support for building mozilla-central
without Skia as I think it should now be considered an integral part of
our code.

[Jeff Gilbert]

Agreed.

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