Re: [gentoo-dev] www-client/chromium and asian fonts, help needed

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Thu, 07 Apr 2011, Pawe³ Hajdan, wrote:

>> Already chromium's dependency on virtual/ttf-fonts is wrong, IMHO.

> Oh, I added it to RDEPEND after Raúl Porcel (armin76) asked me on
> IRC to do that - I think the issue was that the browser failed to
> launch without the fonts installed.

> I don't remember all the details here, but do you have some idea for
> better solution?

As nirbheek has pointed out to me on IRC, freetype actually does font
rendering on the client side. So I stand corrected, and above
mentioned dependency is o.k.

> Yeah, I just added an elog for the Asian fonts here too.

Here I still think that this is a better solution than adding lots of
dependencies. I would expect that users have fonts for their language
installed in any case.

Ulrich