* Re: [gentoo-dev] www-client/chromium and asian fonts, help needed
@ 2011-04-07 7:22 99% ` Ulrich Mueller
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From: Ulrich Mueller @ 2011-04-07 7:22 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
>>>>> On Thu, 07 Apr 2011, Paweł Hajdan, wrote:
>> Already chromium's dependency on virtual/ttf-fonts is wrong, IMHO.
> Oh, I added it to RDEPEND after Raúl Porcel (armin76) asked me on
> IRC to do that - I think the issue was that the browser failed to
> launch without the fonts installed.
> I don't remember all the details here, but do you have some idea for
> better solution?
As nirbheek has pointed out to me on IRC, freetype actually does font
rendering on the client side. So I stand corrected, and above
mentioned dependency is o.k.
> Yeah, I just added an elog for the Asian fonts here too.
Here I still think that this is a better solution than adding lots of
dependencies. I would expect that users have fonts for their language
installed in any case.
Ulrich
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