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Bug 653362 - media-fonts/fontawesome: slot and unmask version 5
Summary: media-fonts/fontawesome: slot and unmask version 5
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
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Assignee: Mykyta Holubakha
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Reported: 2018-04-17 07:43 UTC by Pacho Ramos
Modified: 2019-02-20 14:05 UTC (History)
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Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2018-04-17 07:43:09 UTC 
Currently fontawesome-5 is hardmasked due to:
# Patrice Clement <monsieurp@gentoo.org> (26 Jan 2018)
# Has different symbols. Known to cause issues with i3bar/swaybar.
media-fonts/fontawesome:0/5


I have found this upstream ticket:
https://github.com/greshake/i3status-rust/issues/130

But it seems they are not porting it to new fontawesome and instead they rely on people installing fontawesome-4 for it. It seems that they can be parallel installable:
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=ttf-font-awesome-4

Hence, maybe the best option would be to slot it and unmask the newer version finally (well.. the best option would be to get that tools migrated at some point... but that is not in our scope)

Thanks