Bug 439704

Summary:	x11-libs/libXfont: make bzip2 & freetype conditional
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	SpanKY <vapier>
Component:	[OLD] Library	Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description SpanKY gentoo-dev

2012-10-26 03:51:17 UTC

there a reason for hard requiring bzip2 & freetype ?  we have systems where we don't want either enabled ...

Comment 1 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev

2012-10-26 13:39:19 UTC

The bzip2 support could probably made optional. Currently there seem to be no bzip2 compressed fonts in the tree.

freetype is a bit more difficult. Disabling it may lead to non-Xft applications to no longer show outline fonts (e.g. tk applications if dev-lang/tk was built without USE=truetype).

Comment 2 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev

2012-10-26 14:07:44 UTC

bzip2 and truetype flags were added in libXfont-1.4.5-r1, and a notice if truetype is disabled. Let's see if someone complains.

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2012-10-26 18:27:15 UTC

have it be IUSE=+truetype ?

Comment 4 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev

2012-10-27 00:17:08 UTC

truetype is already on by default in the desktop profile.