The fonts packaged with media-fonts/mathematica-fonts-7.0 seem to be incompatible with Wolfram Mathematica 7.0 itself. In fact, the problem could be just with names: Mathematica asks for fonts with factory "-wri-", the package provides them with factory "-misc-". Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. merge media-fonts/mathematica-fonts on a computer without Wolfram Mathematica 2. log to a remote server with Wolfram Mathematica on it 3. try to run `Mathematica` Actual Results: xset: bad font path element (#23), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax Expected Results: Program should start! This becomes relevant when a Gentoo client tries to run a remote istance of Mathematica: the Gentoo box is expected to provide the fonts. It would be nice if the package media-fonts/mathematica-fonts-7.0 could supply the correct fonts. I propose to add a use flag to the package which installs the required aliases so that the existing fonts are seen also as "-wri-", beside "-misc-". The code I used to implement that on command line is this: grep -- -misc-mathematica /usr/share/fonts/mathematica-fonts/fonts.dir | sed -e 's/^.* -misc-mathematica\(.*\)$/"-wri-mathematica\1" "-misc-mathematica\1"/' >> /usr/share/fonts/mathematica-fonts/fonts.alias (in English: for each font '-misc-mathematica...' in the package, append an alias to it named "-wri-mathematica..." In the ebuild, of course, the paths should be prepended by the proper variable ("$D"?). [is there an English term for "prepend"? not native speaking, sorry] I must confess I have not yet my license, so I am not sure this works; it surely makes the `Mathematica` launcher script happy.
commit 80c1ba9b982daf49da3cacf93763c6e4d23f030b Author: Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org> Date: Mon Sep 28 13:06:53 2015 +0200 media-fonts/mathematica-fonts: Clean old obsoletes: Gentoo-Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265444 Gentoo-Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298165 Gentoo-Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561158 Package-Manager: portage-2.2.22 Signed-off-by: Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=80c1ba9b982daf49da3cacf93763c6e4d23f030b
