On 12/01/13 00:50, Jan Steffens wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 12/01/13 08:16, Evangelos Foutras wrote: >>> At least three bugs on our bug tracker can be solved by making relevant >>> truetype font packages provide 'ttf-font': >>> >>> FS#33367: [chromium] should not depends on ttf-dejavu [1] >>> FS#26012: [kdebase-workspace] Missing dependency on a ttf- package [2] >>> FS#32870: [enlightenment17] needs dependency on a ttf font [3] >>> >>> Based on the Gentoo ttf-fonts package [4], I am proposing to add >>> provides=('ttf-font') to the following font packages: >>> >>> ttf-dejavu >>> ttf-bitstream-vera >>> ttf-liberation >>> ttf-droid >>> ttf-freefont >>> >>> Any yays or nays? (Or maybe suggestions for slightly different naming?) >>> >>> [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/33367 >>> [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/26012 >>> [3] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32870 >>> [4] >>> http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/virtual/ttf-fonts/ttf-fonts-1.ebuild >>> >> >> Makes sense to me. >> >> Allan >> >> > > On another note, the Chrome OS core fonts (Arimo, Cousine and Timos) > are extended versions of the Liberation fonts (like DejaVu is an > extended Bitstream Vera). Maybe we should package these as well and > add them to 29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf? They are available here: > http://gsdview.appspot.com/chromeos-localmirror/distfiles/
Doesn't sound like a bad idea but you'd want to discuss this with the fontconfig maintainers. Looking at FS#25499 [1], it seems to me like 29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf needs additional tweaking as well. Please, however, let's not deviate from the ttf-font discussion by bringing up other topics in this thread. [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25499
