Current situation: www-client/google-chrome depends on one particular font media-fonts/liberation-fonts Proposed solution: change the depedency to virtual/ttf-fonts. Reason to change: User choice. Gentoo has a system for agnosticly substituting fonts already. Seems like a normal enough decision from a technical point of view, or is there some other reason to obey google's upstream font choices ? After overriding it myself and testing media-fonts/dejavu (the next top candidate in the virtual/ttf-fonts) for a while, it works well enough to where I don't actually notice a difference. reaching out for comments
The dependency was added in this commit without any specific explanation. https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=7376402bdc479441a16517c07a0f0182311ebad3 Unless there is a specific reason for it, I think we should just drop the dependency.
The dependency is present in the Debian packaging for chrome. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/59dcd0401fb1d6bb3ae7cf57fc66325c984d228f/chrome/installer/linux/debian/additional_deps#11