croscorefonts is expected to install /usr/share/fonts/croscorefonts/SymbolNeu.ttf, and in 1.23.0 it does. But with 1.31.0 SymbolNeu is missing. The fontconfig configuration file: /etc/fonts/conf.avail/62-croscore-symbolneu.conf is installed, but the font itself is missing. It seems to be missing from the source file at: http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/croscorefonts-1.31.0.tar.bz2 Reproducible: Always
At one time, the glyphs in the Symbol font were used to render mathematical expressions. That function has been moved into the browser, consequently Google no longer saw a need to distribute Symbol Neu and dropped it from the package. Symbol remains one of the four Postscript fonts and is needed to render very old PDF files. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_(typeface)
It may well make sense to drop SymbolNeu (though some of us dinosaurs still find it necessary) - but if it is dropped, the package should not install 62-croscore-symbolneu.conf which advertises SymbolNeu font as an alias for Symbol.
I'd prefer to have the SymbolNeu font broken out into a separate package. That way it can be installed together with the latest version of the Chrome OS fonts. A Symbol font is unfortunately sometimes needed.
That would be great. The config file should get broken out with it!
