Bug 65904 – freefont

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Dmitry S. Kulyabov 2004-09-30 04:20:47 UTC]

Free UCS fonts

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Dmitry S. Kulyabov 2004-09-30 04:21:44 UTC]

Created attachment 40765 [details]
media-fonts/freefont-20020306.ebuild

[Comment 2 Dmitry S. Kulyabov 2004-09-30 04:22:25 UTC]

Created attachment 40766 [details]
media-fonts/freefont/files/extra/fonts/gnustep/version/20020306/nfont.tar.bz2

GNUstep font wrapper

[Comment 3 foser (RETIRED) 2004-09-30 13:08:17 UTC]

idem

[Comment 4 Dmitry S. Kulyabov 2004-10-01 00:37:13 UTC]

I don't find freefont in portage tree.

[Comment 5 foser (RETIRED) 2004-10-01 04:57:57 UTC]

i assumed it was the same pack as freefonts

the ebuild needs to be adapted to the current eclass

[Comment 6 Mamoru KOMACHI (RETIRED) 2004-10-01 12:13:06 UTC]

Could you explain what this files/extra/fonts/gnustep/version/20020306/nfont.tar.bz2 is for?

[Comment 7 Armando Di Cianno (RETIRED) 2004-10-03 13:32:36 UTC]

This is an example font package showing what the fonts.eclass the submitter has modified in bug 65634 can do.

I'm not sure if the method used will work across the bored, though.  nfont's for GNUstep have to definitely be set up by a packager to make sure things look right/make sense.  The GNUstep mknfonts tools facilitates this, but the process is not fully automatic.

However, I like the idea of adding a "gnustep" use flag to font packages in portage that I, or others, have packaged for use with GNUstep.  This bug, is invalid, but the idea behind it is sound.

[Comment 8 Armando Di Cianno (RETIRED) 2004-10-03 13:40:20 UTC]

Moving gnustep nfont related issues to bug 66241.