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* [gentoo-user] Why do these packages depend on corefonts?
@ 2008-11-01  1:40 Erik Hahn
  2008-11-01  3:21 ` Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
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From: Erik Hahn @ 2008-11-01  1:40 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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?

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* Re: [gentoo-user] Why do these packages depend on corefonts?
@ 2008-11-01  3:21 Steven Susbauer
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From: Steven Susbauer @ 2008-11-01  3:21 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Erik Hahn wrote:
>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?
>
According to the slim webpage, it only needs freetype (along with
libjpeg, libpng, and X11).

It appears to be explained in the bug about it though:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215661
"the default theme uses verdana which is provided by corefonts"

    -Steve





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* Re: [gentoo-user] Why do these packages depend on corefonts?
  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
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto @ 2008-11-01  3:21 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

> 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

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