* Re: [gentoo-user] Why do these packages depend on corefonts?
@ 2008-11-01 3:21 99% Steven Susbauer
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From: Steven Susbauer @ 2008-11-01 3:21 UTC (permalink / raw
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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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