From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NHgYY-0003yj-8d for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:35:29 +0100 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NHgWy-0001QT-9K for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:33:48 +0100 Received: from s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl ([85.145.118.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:33:48 +0100 Received: from k.kooi by s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:33:48 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:33:26 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4B1D222A.90105@kernelconcepts.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6pre) Gecko/20091109 Shredder/3.0pre In-Reply-To: <4B1D222A.90105@kernelconcepts.de> Sender: news X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 80.91.229.12 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: gcho-openembedded-devel@m.gmane.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 16:35:29 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 07-12-09 16:41, Florian Boor wrote: > Hi, > > 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. > > What do you think? I added that RECOMMENDS years ago to ensure people have a working system. Are you volunteering to fix up all images and tasks containing gtk+ apps to include at least one font? In your japanese android usecase people can just install their favourite japanese font and use BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS to uninstall ttf-deja-sans at do_rootfs time. I fail to see how your proposals don't regress things for the majority of our current users. regards, Koen