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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] www-client/chromium and asian fonts, help needed
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 18:37:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19867.17708.711061.762781@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D9B3903.9050306@gentoo.org>

>>>>> On Tue, 05 Apr 2011, Paweł Hajdan, wrote:

> There is a bug about www-client/chromium and asian fonts:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359153

> First, I'm just wondering whether making the browser RDEPEND on some
> fonts would be a correct solution. Maybe, similarly to the icon
> themes, we should just suggest some fonts in pkg_postinst.

I think this would be conceptionally wrong. Fonts are a property of
the X server and shouldn't be a dependency of an X client (which may
even run on a different machine).

Already chromium's dependency on virtual/ttf-fonts is wrong, IMHO.

We had the same discussion for Emacs some time ago (see bug 137598),
and we output a message in pkg_postinst() that Emacs requires fonts.

Ulrich



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-05 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-05 15:45 [gentoo-dev] www-client/chromium and asian fonts, help needed "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2011-04-05 15:51 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-04-05 16:13 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2011-04-05 16:37 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2011-04-07  6:52   ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2011-04-07  7:22     ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-04-06  1:22 ` [gentoo-dev] " Diego Elio Pettenò

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