Bug 550914 – kde-plasma/oxygen-fonts should not hard depend on fontforge

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Mike Gilbert 2015-05-31 23:43:32 UTC]

kde-plasma/oxygen-fonts currently has DEPEND="media-gfx/fontforge".

mreug says the ttf files are in the tarball, so why do you need fontforge?

[Comment 1 Mike Gilbert 2015-06-01 00:45:19 UTC]

It looks like CMakeLists needs some reworking so that it doesn't bail out when fontforge is missing.

Also, there are some "fake" targets for generating the .ttf files that need to be adjusted to point at the right path and so that the rules will not fire when the .ttf files are already up to date.

[Comment 2 Michael Palimaka (kensington) 2015-06-01 12:00:37 UTC]

We currently do it this way because of this upstream change: http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=oxygen-fonts.git&a=commitdiff&h=67fb96b5db911d91046c32233e55585845d6f8c3, and this is also consistent with other distros.

[Comment 3 Mike Gilbert 2015-06-01 15:08:00 UTC]

(In reply to Michael Palimaka (kensington) from comment #2)

So why are the .ttf files included in the repository/tarball? It seems quite strange to include them if they will never be used.

[Comment 4 Michael Palimaka (kensington) 2015-06-04 14:40:34 UTC]

I've spoken to upstream, and they've advised the bundled fonts are left over and recommend using fontforge.