From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.reciva.com ([82.71.203.194] helo=crown.reciva.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NHggb-0004At-9E for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:43:48 +0100 Received: from castle.reciva.com ([82.71.203.193] helo=lurch.internal.reciva.com) by crown.reciva.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NHgf0-000599-KH for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:42:06 +0000 Received: from mill.internal.reciva.com ([192.168.106.87] ident=pb) by lurch.internal.reciva.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NHgf0-0008QA-Cu for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:42:06 +0000 From: Phil Blundell To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org In-Reply-To: <4B1D222A.90105@kernelconcepts.de> References: <4B1D222A.90105@kernelconcepts.de> Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:42:02 +0000 Message-Id: <1260204122.779.75.camel@mill.internal.reciva.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 82.71.203.194 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: philb@gnu.org X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on linuxtogo.org); Unknown failure Subject: Re: [RFC] gtk+ and fonts X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:43:48 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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.