213231 – app-emulation/wine corefonts dependency

Bug 213231 - app-emulation/wine corefonts dependency

Summary: app-emulation/wine corefonts dependency

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 179538

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Low enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

URL:	http://wiki.jswindle.com/index.php/Fo...
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Reported:	2008-03-13 06:21 UTC by Anton Bolshakov
Modified:	2008-03-13 06:50 UTC (History)
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Description Anton Bolshakov 2008-03-13 06:21:53 UTC

Wine depends on corefonts which is formally microsoft product.
I suggest to make it optional and use liberation fonts from RedHat, for example, which design as a free replacement of corefonts. There are few other fonts also available as an alternative:
http://wiki.jswindle.com/index.php/Fonts#Red_Hat_Liberation_Fonts

Suggestion:
Verify and do not install media-fonts/corefonts if media-fonts/liberation-fonts-ttf is already installed.

ps. I realised that Wine is the only packages left in my gentoo which requires corefonts.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-03-13 06:50:34 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 179538 ***