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From: "Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" <please.no.spam.here@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why do these packages depend on corefonts?
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 01:21:30 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <38af3d670810312021w1973f5fbq1b129bece9dd6dd8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081101014017.GA22679@eriks>

> Why the hell do these packages depend on corefonts?:
>
> app-emulation/wine-1.1.6
> net-www/netscape-flash-10_rc20080915
> x11-misc/slim-1.3.1
>
> It somehow makes sense with wine, maybe even - remotely - with flash.
> But why, why should *slim* need Windows fonts to work?

Not only that, but why don't they also accept media-fonts/liberation-fonts?
In my case it is media-gfx/imagemagick-6.4.0.6 that forces me to have
media-fonts/corefonts, as I don't have installed any of the 3 packages
you mentioned

-- 
Software is like sex: it is better when it is free - Linus Torvalds



  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-01  3:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-01  1:40 [gentoo-user] Why do these packages depend on corefonts? Erik Hahn
2008-11-01  3:21 ` Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto [this message]
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2008-11-01  3:21 Steven Susbauer

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