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

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Tue, 05 Apr 2011, Pawe³ Hajdan, wrote:

> There is a bug about www-client/chromium and asian fonts:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359153

> First, I'm just wondering whether making the browser RDEPEND on some
> fonts would be a correct solution. Maybe, similarly to the icon
> themes, we should just suggest some fonts in pkg_postinst.

I think this would be conceptionally wrong. Fonts are a property of
the X server and shouldn't be a dependency of an X client (which may
even run on a different machine).

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

We had the same discussion for Emacs some time ago (see bug 137598),
and we output a message in pkg_postinst() that Emacs requires fonts.

Ulrich