This is a tracker for a long term goal feature of getting automatic font installation to Gentoo. As from the slides in the URL, modified a bit for Gentoo use, this could go like this: 1. A tinderbox package manager hook detects font at pkg build or postinst time 2. Package gets tagged using fc-query(?) 3. PackageKit installs GTK+ module - could be some other minimal thing that just notifies user of what package needs to be installed to see all the fonts 4. GTK+ overrides Pango default fontmap 5. PackageKit receives font install request 6. Installed fonts are picked up For 2), another option could be to record it in metadata.xml (would involve DTD changes, perhaps a GLEP and dev consensus, but pretty straightforward) and have all developers have PM hooks that check for fonts in a package and complain if metadata.xml is outdated in regards to font information
