Re: [gentoo-user] Why do these packages depend on corefonts?
Erik Hahn wrote: Why the hell do these packages depend on corefonts?: app-emulation/wine-1.1.6 net-www/netscape-flash-10_rc20080915 x11-misc/slim-1.3.1 It somehow makes sense with wine, maybe even - remotely - with flash. But why, why should *slim* need Windows fonts to work? According to the slim webpage, it only needs freetype (along with libjpeg, libpng, and X11). It appears to be explained in the bug about it though: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215661 the default theme uses verdana which is provided by corefonts -Steve
Re: [gentoo-user] Why do these packages depend on corefonts?
Why the hell do these packages depend on corefonts?: app-emulation/wine-1.1.6 net-www/netscape-flash-10_rc20080915 x11-misc/slim-1.3.1 It somehow makes sense with wine, maybe even - remotely - with flash. But why, why should *slim* need Windows fonts to work? Not only that, but why don't they also accept media-fonts/liberation-fonts? In my case it is media-gfx/imagemagick-6.4.0.6 that forces me to have media-fonts/corefonts, as I don't have installed any of the 3 packages you mentioned -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free - Linus Torvalds
