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Remove vendored FreeType from Kiva Agg backend

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difficulty: advanced priority: low type: refactor
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Kiva's Agg backend includes FreeType 2.3.12 as a vendored dependency. This version is ~11 years old at this point.

Given the issues we've already had with symbol clashes from the vendored Agg code, it's probably a good idea to link FreeType as a shared library. This is already being done by EDM for `matplotlib`, so we could even use the same version.

#74 might be related

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