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From: Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fonts project meeting and elections
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 13:39:42
Message-Id: 20150227133930.21170.qmail@stuge.se
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fonts project meeting and elections by Ben de Groot
1 Ben de Groot wrote:
2 > >> I propose that we prefer installing just OpenType. But this should
3 > >> be user configurable, so in those cases I propose we do:
4 > >>
5 > >> IUSE="+opentype"
6 > >> if use opentype; then
7 > >> FONT_SUFFIX="otf"
8 > >> else
9 > >> FONT_SUFFIX="ttf"
10 > >> fi
11 > >
12 > > So if I first USE=-opentype and later USE=opentype the filenames
13 > > would change even though the fonts are actually the same. Do you
14 > > know that no software packages will get horribly confused by that,
15 > > and end up doing silly things such as listing each font twice?
16 >
17 > So what are you suggesting?
18
19 I'm not sure what the solution is - I just pointed out that there
20 might be a problem.
21
22
23 //Peter