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* Re: [gentoo-user] Why do these packages depend on corefonts?
  @ 2008-11-01  3:21 99% ` Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
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From: Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto @ 2008-11-01  3:21 UTC (permalink / raw
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> 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



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