Since media-fonts/liberation-fonts-ttf is meant to be a substitute for media-fonts/corefonts, I suggest that either a virtual package is used, or, perhaps simpler, that wine and imagemagick should allow both to satisfy their dependencies. I did no excessive tests, but compilation works, and some small tests with wine showed no flaws, so it seems that at least wine *can* run with these font substitutes. If some programs of wine should really need corefonts for full functionality (although I observed none in my brief tests, there might of course be some) I suggest to leave it to the user whether he wants to install corefonts anyway.
Except that imagemagick requires Arial (see Bug 146713) which is not provided by liberation-fonts-ttf at all. This is not a corefonts replacement dependency-wise at all.
(In reply to comment #1) > imagemagick requires Arial (see Bug 146713) Sorry, I was not aware that this part was a dupe. So they are already working on the problem... > This is not a corefonts replacement dependency-wise at all. But to be such a replacement is the declared goal and only reason for the development of libaration-fonts; it is clear that redhat (and probably most other distributors, too) will use it this way. Anyway, the wine part is the more interesting one, since for wine the corefonts dependency cannot be disabled by a use flag yet.
It can become a replacement if fontconfig is configured as such, see http://uwstopia.nl/blog/2007/05/free-your-fonts
... that of course only if Arial, Times New Roman and Courier are sufficient. Filed bug 179807 for the fontconfig stuff.
x11-misc/slim could depende on || ( corefonts liberation-fonts-ttf) also. It only depends on them at runtime and it's working for me with corefonts unmerged.
remind me when it is a full replacement
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Liberation Fonts don't seem to providing any more fonts. However the vast majority of windows apps will work fine with these, and there will always be wierd apps assuming certain fonts we can't guarantee. I would have thought ( corefonts || liberation-fonts-ttf ) was the right way to go on this, perhaps with a message at the end of install advising liberation fonts users that some apps may expect additional fonts only provided by corefonts.
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As far as I see, liberation-fonts now also provides Arial. I would really like to remove the proprietary fonts from my system and still have truetype support in wine.
