Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Steven Susbauer <stupendoussteve@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why do these packages depend on corefonts?
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:21:13
Message-Id: BAY122-F387E6973E2C208EE98430BBA230@phx.gbl
1 Erik Hahn wrote:
2 >Why the hell do these packages depend on corefonts?:
3 >
4 >app-emulation/wine-1.1.6
5 >net-www/netscape-flash-10_rc20080915
6 >x11-misc/slim-1.3.1
7 >
8 >It somehow makes sense with wine, maybe even - remotely - with flash.
9 >But why, why should *slim* need Windows fonts to work?
10 >
11 According to the slim webpage, it only needs freetype (along with
12 libjpeg, libpng, and X11).
13
14 It appears to be explained in the bug about it though:
15 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215661
16 "the default theme uses verdana which is provided by corefonts"
17
18 -Steve