Re: [RFC] gtk+ and fonts

[Florian Boor <florian.boor@kernelconcepts.de>]

Hi,

Phil Blundell schrieb:
> 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.

yes right, I see this is problematic. In fact Angström solves on its own already
and other distributions should do the same.

> 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.

Eliminating it on my own is what I do currently but I somehow refuse to accept
this as a good solution. I do not see why some misfeature we introduced a long
time ago should not be fixed - even if if can cause some things to break.

Greetings

Florian

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