From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.kernelconcepts.de ([212.60.202.196]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NHh3D-0000bI-Ja for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:07:10 +0100 Received: from [192.168.2.131] by mail.kernelconcepts.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NHhCR-0000n9-0G for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:16:39 +0100 Message-ID: <4B1D35DD.3050202@kernelconcepts.de> Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:05:33 +0100 From: Florian Boor User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <4B1D222A.90105@kernelconcepts.de> <1260204122.779.75.camel@mill.internal.reciva.com> In-Reply-To: <1260204122.779.75.camel@mill.internal.reciva.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 212.60.202.196 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: florian.boor@kernelconcepts.de 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 17:07:10 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 -- The dream of yesterday Florian Boor is the hope of today Tel: +49 271-771091-15 and the reality of tomorrow. Fax: +49 271-771091-19 [Robert Hutchings Goddard, 1904] florian.boor@kernelconcepts.de http://www.kernelconcepts.de/en