From: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] gtk+ and fonts
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:42:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1260204122.779.75.camel@mill.internal.reciva.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B1D222A.90105@kernelconcepts.de>
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 16:41 +0100, Florian Boor wrote:
> our current GTK+ packages recommend a single Truetype font (ttf-dejavu-sans).
> This might pull in a quite large font collection that might be different from
> what the user wants. For a Japanese image e.g. you might not want these at all
> or you might just want different fonts (like the Android ones).
>
> I would be fine removing this RRECOMMENDS entry without any replacement. Another
> option would be to create a virtual provider for basic ttf fonts and define a
> matching run time dependency.
Just removing that RRECOMMENDS (or weakening it to RSUGGESTS) would run
the risk of breaking images that are currently depending on it. I
suspect there are probably quite a few of those and this might not be a
good idea.
Creating some kind of virtual for gtk+ to depend on instead of a
particular concrete font does sound like the best way forwards with
this. And, of course, individual DISTROs are welcome to eliminate that
RRECOMMENDS in the gtk+ packaging.
p.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-07 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-07 15:41 [RFC] gtk+ and fonts Florian Boor
2009-12-07 16:33 ` Koen Kooi
2009-12-07 16:42 ` Phil Blundell [this message]
2009-12-07 17:05 ` Florian Boor
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