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From: Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <please.no.spam.here@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why do these packages depend on corefonts?
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:22:04
Message-Id: 38af3d670810312021w1973f5fbq1b129bece9dd6dd8@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Why do these packages depend on corefonts? by Erik Hahn
1 > Why the hell do these packages depend on corefonts?:
2 >
3 > app-emulation/wine-1.1.6
4 > net-www/netscape-flash-10_rc20080915
5 > x11-misc/slim-1.3.1
6 >
7 > It somehow makes sense with wine, maybe even - remotely - with flash.
8 > But why, why should *slim* need Windows fonts to work?
9
10 Not only that, but why don't they also accept media-fonts/liberation-fonts?
11 In my case it is media-gfx/imagemagick-6.4.0.6 that forces me to have
12 media-fonts/corefonts, as I don't have installed any of the 3 packages
13 you mentioned
14
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16 Software is like sex: it is better when it is free - Linus Torvalds