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 ?
And so it will be in future for license reasons. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 94461 ***
> 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..
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 :-)
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
I think including tahoma would be ok if the corefonts guys say so, but I'm not including anything else than what they provide.
(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.
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']
that's ok, thanks for letting us know.
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