Bugzilla Bug 224527

This is a tracker bug to track the progress of introducing source-building of
fonts into the Gentoo tree. In no particular order, we will have to achieve the
following:
1) Fontforge keyworded on all arches that want fonts.
2) A standard set of build scripts.
3) An eclass?
4) A standard set of test scripts ?

we've removed fontforge from some packages (like wine) because it tended to be
a largish dependency with no advantage: if the package already comes with fonts
compiled, why bother building them ?  or is there for something else ?

vapier, fonts can have bugs too and could be fixed with patches. To allow users
such possibility fontforge USE flag was created (take a look at dejavu font as
an example). Do you have any objections if we return fontforge dependency
together with fontforge USE flag?

loki_val, media-fonts/sil-padauk bundles font sources too, so possibility to
build sources there could be added too.

And general question. Is fontforge the only font build system? Are there any
possibilities that other programs to build fonts will exist in the future? If
so may be we should rename USE flag from fontforge to buildfonts or something
similar?