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>>>>> On Tue, 05 Apr 2011, Pawe³ Hajdan, wrote: |
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> There is a bug about www-client/chromium and asian fonts: |
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> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359153 |
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> First, I'm just wondering whether making the browser RDEPEND on some |
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> fonts would be a correct solution. Maybe, similarly to the icon |
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> themes, we should just suggest some fonts in pkg_postinst. |
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I think this would be conceptionally wrong. Fonts are a property of |
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the X server and shouldn't be a dependency of an X client (which may |
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even run on a different machine). |
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Already chromium's dependency on virtual/ttf-fonts is wrong, IMHO. |
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We had the same discussion for Emacs some time ago (see bug 137598), |
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and we output a message in pkg_postinst() that Emacs requires fonts. |
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Ulrich |