>>>>> On Thu, 07 Apr 2011, Paweł Hajdan, wrote: >> Already chromium's dependency on virtual/ttf-fonts is wrong, IMHO.
> Oh, I added it to RDEPEND after Raúl Porcel (armin76) asked me on > IRC to do that - I think the issue was that the browser failed to > launch without the fonts installed. > I don't remember all the details here, but do you have some idea for > better solution? As nirbheek has pointed out to me on IRC, freetype actually does font rendering on the client side. So I stand corrected, and above mentioned dependency is o.k. > Yeah, I just added an elog for the Asian fonts here too. Here I still think that this is a better solution than adding lots of dependencies. I would expect that users have fonts for their language installed in any case. Ulrich
