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Bug 239830 - Free USE flag for x11-base/xorg-x11
Summary: Free USE flag for x11-base/xorg-x11
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement
Assignee: Gentoo X packagers
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Reported: 2008-10-05 02:26 UTC by Luke-Jr
Modified: 2008-11-18 22:04 UTC (History)
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Description Luke-Jr 2008-10-05 02:26:14 UTC 
It would be very nice to have a "free" or "nonfree" USE flag for x11-base/xorg-x11

The following sub-packages are non-free:
media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-100dpi
media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-75dpi
media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-type1
media-fonts/font-bh-100dpi
media-fonts/font-bh-75dpi
media-fonts/font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi
media-fonts/font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi
media-fonts/font-bh-type1
media-fonts/font-daewoo-misc
media-fonts/font-dec-misc
media-fonts/font-ibm-type1
media-fonts/font-jis-misc
media-fonts/font-xfree86-type1
Comment 1 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-10-05 17:57:52 UTC 
Except that X requires some of those fonts to function properly... Do you have a list of replacements?

Thanks
Comment 2 Luke-Jr 2008-10-05 18:06:34 UTC 
I do not, at this time. I am in the middle of trying to get a Free JDK working, but once I am done with that I will manually unmerge these fonts and see if there are any noticable problems. If so, I may take a few hours to design really simple replacements as needed.
Comment 3 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev 2008-10-05 23:43:09 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Except that X requires some of those fonts to function properly... Do you have
> a list of replacements?

To my knowledge X only requires "fixed" font provided to function properly. media-fonts/font-misc-misc provides that, which isn't listed in comment #0
Comment 4 Luke-Jr 2008-10-07 00:28:50 UTC 
Confirmed: no problems with these packages removed.
Comment 5 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-11-07 06:18:03 UTC 
We package X.Org as released by upstream, so this is more appropriately addressed to them. I know people are interested in fixing license issues because a number have been resolved in recent times. Please file upstream bugs at bugs.freedesktop.org in the xorg product. Thanks!
Comment 6 Luke-Jr 2008-11-07 06:35:56 UTC 
X.org is distributed split. How is a USE flag on a meta-package an upstream issue?
Comment 7 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-11-18 22:04:54 UTC 
(In reply to comment #6)
> X.org is distributed split. How is a USE flag on a meta-package an upstream
> issue?

Our meta package reflects the package set contained in an X.Org X11 release as determined by upstream X.Org developers. The suggestion in this bug is a workaround instead of getting the licenses changed (if indeed they are nonfree), which needs to happen upstream.