Jeremy Olexa wrote: > Ryan Hill wrote: >> On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:03:53 -0500 >> Jeremy Olexa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I'm thinking that a virtual/fonts package would be a good addition to >>> the tree. We have hit this issue in Gentoo Prefix where any font >>> package would satisfy a dependency. I also have an open bug where a >>> package depends on corefonts but the reporter has stated that another >>> fonts package will work. Frankly, I would rather *not* depend on the >>> proprietary M$ fonts, myself. So my proposal would be to make every >>> fonts package satisfy some virtual and then other packages can depend >>> on that virtual to satisfy the need for *some* fonts. I just don't >>> have a game plan for the best way to do it. >>> >>> Do you people agree that this could be useful? >>> Does anyone have a suggestion for the best way to get it done? >> >> Is it something like currently deps on corefonts but liberation-fonts >> works? I think there was a bug open somewhere for that at some point. >> I could see a virtual on a some agreed upon choice of core fonts, but >> to have every font package in it... > > Yes, that is my open bug that I have at the moment. bug #215661. But it > is not the first time I have come across this. Maybe every font package > satisfying a virtual is silly, I don't know. Maybe there are only a > couple of package which can be interchanged, is it known which ones? If > that was the case, then it is trivial to do || ( corefonts > liberation-fonts ) and the case is closed here. > >> >> There are also lot of packages that depend on ttf-bitstream-vera that >> might work just as easily with dejavu. >> > > I have heard this as well. > > I think the proposal for a virtual/fonts is very useful. I don't know if there are any cases where bitmap fonts would be needed instead of truetype fonts. But if that is the case, we should make separate virtuals for those.
I think it would be best to add the more common font packages to the fonts virtual, and not all. I'd propose something along the lines of: || ( dejavu liberation-fonts ttf-bitstream-vera corefonts ) -- Ben de Groot Gentoo Linux developer (lxde, media, desktop-misc) Gentoo Linux Release Engineering PR liaison __________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ben.liveforge.org/ irc://chat.freenode.net/#gentoo-media irc://irc.oftc.net/#lxde __________________________________________________
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