On Tue, 2020-06-16 at 16:24 +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 10:06:19AM -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs- > dev wrote: > > On 6/16/20 9:37 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: > > > cups-filter-1.27.5 needs a font for its tests. The default one is > > > DejaVuSans.ttf, but this can be changed with the --with-test- > > > font-path > > > switch. Normally this font is only used for tests, so shouldn't > > > be > > > required, but configure fails if DejaVuSans.ttf or the specified > > > font > > > is not installed. > > > > > > There are two possibilities: > > > - make DejaVu fonts recommended > > > - tweak configure so that it does not error out if the font is > > > not > > > there. > > > > > > Pierre > > > > > > > > I suggest making the DejaVu fonts recommended. If I remember > > correctly, this > > isn't the only package that relies off their existence. I could be > > wrong > > about that though :) > > > > - Doug > > > My memory says the same, but after yesterday I know I'm often > flakey. > > For a desktop, I do not understand why anyone who natively uses an > alphabetic language would NOT install DejaVu Sans. But for a > server, probably it seems like useless overhead. > > However, we already list the DejaVu fotns as Optional (required for > the tests), so I suggests changng them to Recommended (required for > the tests). > > I often think it is nice to indicate _why_ something is recommended. >
Will do that, and for avahi, tell it is needed for cups-browsed, which allows finding a printer on the network. Note that I'm not very happy with avahi: it recommends qt5, which itself recommends (or requires) librsvg, which itself requires rustc... 2 or 3 more hours build for just something that used to be optional! I'll mention --disable-avahi in the command explanations (there does not seem to be a "disable-ttf-font" switch, but I may be wrong). Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
