From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kw733-00040G-3m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:21:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 857E3E055B; Sat, 1 Nov 2008 03:21:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bay0-omc2-s2.bay0.hotmail.com (bay0-omc2-s2.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.246.138]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B425E055B for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2008 03:21:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hotmail.com ([207.46.10.246]) by bay0-omc2-s2.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:21:10 -0700 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:21:10 -0700 Message-ID: Received: from 207.46.10.254 by by122fd.bay122.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:21:05 GMT X-Originating-IP: [68.225.143.90] X-Originating-Email: [stupendoussteve@hotmail.com] X-Sender: stupendoussteve@hotmail.com From: "Steven Susbauer" 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 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Nov 2008 03:21:10.0332 (UTC) FILETIME=[E2EEFFC0:01C93BD0] X-Archives-Salt: dd1a426f-9974-4e67-b76a-e461dd51355e X-Archives-Hash: 3e8d182fcb64f57736de09789d0d981f 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