I have done an emerge --depclean today and it deleted media-fonts/corefonts. I use KDE and LibreOffice. I wonder why there is no dependency to corefonts? I opened Libre Office Write and as expected all Corefonts are gone, Times Verdana etc. Shouldn't corefonts be a dependency when using a desktop variant like KDE? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Install KDE and Libre office and do a emerge --depclean Actual Results: corefonts is not installed?
Created attachment 360990 [details] emerge --info
corefonts installs Microsoft fonts. Those are hardly necessary for a KDE system.
kde-base/kdelibs dependency graph on fonts: > # equery g --depth=3 kdelibs | grep font > [ 1] media-libs/fontconfig-2.10.93 > [ 2] app-admin/eselect-fontconfig-1.1 > [ 2] virtual/ttf-fonts-1 > [ 3] media-fonts/dejavu-2.34 > [ 3] media-fonts/liberation-fonts-2.00.1 > [ 3] media-fonts/croscorefonts-1.21.0 > [ 3] media-fonts/droid-113-r2 > [ 3] media-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera-1.10-r3 > [ 3] media-fonts/freefont-20120503 > [ 3] media-fonts/corefonts-1-r6 > [ 3] media-fonts/font-util-1.3.0 > [ 3] media-fonts/font-misc-misc-1.1.2 > [ 3] media-fonts/font-cursor-misc-1.0.3 virtual/ttf-fonts-1 just pulls one font in, for example media-fonts/dejavu which is sufficient. If you need more just put it into your world file.
media-fonts/corefonts brings some fonts that are used as standard for many things http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_websafe_fonts.asp I just don't understand why a Desktop System should not have these fonts in it when they are used all over the place. Maybe licence problems or something?
(In reply to andros from comment #4) > media-fonts/corefonts brings some fonts that are used as standard for many > things > http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_websafe_fonts.asp > I just don't understand why a Desktop System should not have these fonts in > it when they are used all over the place. > > Maybe licence problems or something? Even if you look at that page, it lists non-Microsoft alternatives ("Times", "Courier", "Helvetica")... Sorry, but it's not a dependency and we're not going to force everyone to install it. You are free to add it to your world file.
