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Bug 141219 - Corefonts is missing "tahoma" font
Summary: Corefonts is missing "tahoma" font
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Fonts Team
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
: 318983 355369 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2006-07-20 16:31 UTC by radoslaww
Modified: 2011-02-24 04:29 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Runtime testing required: ---


Attachments
corefonts-with-tahoma.patch (corefonts-with-tahoma.patch,865 bytes, patch)
2006-10-21 07:59 UTC, Christoph Brill (egore) (RESIGNED)
Details | Diff

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Description radoslaww 2006-07-20 16:31:22 UTC
The corefonts package is missing file: wd97vwr32.exe which contains "tahoma" font. This file can be downloaded from http://corefonts.sourceforge.net.
Why not to add this file to corefonts ebuild ?
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-07-21 00:00:48 UTC
And so it will be in future for license reasons.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 94461 ***
Comment 2 radoslaww 2006-07-21 04:20:26 UTC
> And so it will be in future for license reasons.
> 
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 94461 ***
> 

Are you sure ? There is different file proposal in this bug: wd97vwr32.exe (not tahoma32.exe). One can find at corefonts.sourcefogre.net:

"News

    * 060430 A long awaited overhaul. Many things are fixed, links updated. Selects a random mirror. Uses tahoma from word 97 viewer instead of the ie6 update so no windows license is needed."

If this is right this font perhaps could be added to gentoo..
Comment 3 Christoph Brill (egore) (RESIGNED) 2006-10-21 07:59:15 UTC
Created attachment 100143 [details, diff]
corefonts-with-tahoma.patch

This patch adds support for the tahoma font to the corefonts ebuild. I hope it's legal and valid :-)
Comment 4 brad walker 2006-12-09 18:04:38 UTC
if there are licensing concerns, couldn't the ebuild require a manual fetch for tahoma's file?

i prefer the ie update file. it's megabytes smaller than the word 97 viewer and includes tahoma's bold .ttf. word 97 only has plain and italic.

corefonts w/tahoma would be spectacular. the linux documentation project's font howto repeatedly references and recommends tahoma: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Font-HOWTO/#desktop
Comment 5 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-12-13 06:53:30 UTC
I think including tahoma would be ok if the corefonts guys say so, but I'm not including anything else than what they provide.
Comment 6 Ivan Yosifov 2006-12-13 10:53:32 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> I think including tahoma would be ok if the corefonts guys say so, but I'm not
> including anything else than what they provide.
> 
This is precisely what we are asking for - wd97vwr32.exe is provided by the corefont guys. If you want to be extra safe make tahoma an optional use flag and the distfile fetch restricted. I won't mind it that way either.

Comment 7 Ryan Hill (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-06-24 05:20:38 UTC
Fixed.  Thanks.

ppc-macos: i had to drop your keyword on the new ebuild.
  DEPEND.badindev                1
   media-fonts/corefonts/corefonts-1-r3.ebuild: ~ppc-macos(default-darwin/macos/10.4) ['x11-apps/mkfontdir', 'app-arch/cabextract']
Comment 8 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev 2007-06-24 12:15:02 UTC
that's ok, thanks for letting us know.
Comment 9 chickaroo 2010-05-08 16:55:50 UTC
*** Bug 318983 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Ryan Hill (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-02-24 04:29:40 UTC
*** Bug 355369 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***