>>>>> Keith Packard <[email protected]> writes:
>>>>> Ivan Shmakov <[email protected]> writes:
>> Unless there's a specific problem with that, please downgrade the
>> dependency on the font packages to Recommends:.
> fontconfig isn't useful without at least one font installed on the
> system. Many fontconfig using applications will crash if there
> aren't any fonts on the system at all.
ACK, thanks for the clarification.
However, it may be considered a bug in those applications, and
downgrading the dependency to Recommends: may still be justified
as long as there's a considerable amount of software (depending
directly or indirectly on fontconfig) that remains useful even
in the absence of any fonts.
> In the case of gnunet-server, it's using libextractor3 which provides
> PDF support, and rendering arbitrary PDF files will require at least
> one font accessed through fontconfig.
The point is that, AIUI, libextractor3 is used to extract
keywords from PDF files, and /not/ to /render/ them. Therefore,
I'd expect for GNUnet node to operate even if no fonts are
installed on the system. (I'd expect the same from, say,
pdftotext of poppler-utils, BTW.)
By this weekend, I hope to check if it's possible (and sensible)
to run a GNUnet node (or other software depending on fontconfig)
without any of the fonts installed.
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