From: "Steven Susbauer" <stupendoussteve@hotmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why do these packages depend on corefonts?
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:21:05 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BAY122-F387E6973E2C208EE98430BBA230@phx.gbl> (raw)
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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2008-11-01 3:21 Steven Susbauer [this message]
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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
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