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Bug 953743 - media-fonts/noto: add +emoji use-flag
Summary: media-fonts/noto: add +emoji use-flag
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor
Assignee: Gentoo Fonts Team
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Reported: 2025-04-12 19:24 UTC by Mervin 9B
Modified: 2025-06-19 16:41 UTC (History)
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Description Mervin 9B 2025-04-12 19:24:11 UTC
This package already includes +cjk to pull in it's cjk subpackage (noto-cjk). Adding a similar use +emoji to pull in the emoji subpackage (noto-emoji) would be both consistent and helpful.

All noto-fonts could now be (un)merged through media-fonts/noto alone.
Comment 1 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2025-06-04 09:41:02 UTC
I am unsure about this as:
- noto package is not really depending on noto-emoji for anything.
- We already have media-fonts/fonts-meta as a meta for pulling them.
- noto is keyworded on many arches that have no noto-emoji.

Maybe we should even drop the (historical) RDEPEND on noto-cjk as noto ebuild is not meant to be a virtual package to pull in extra noto related fonts
Comment 2 Mervin 9B 2025-06-19 16:41:00 UTC
Indeed, noto is not intended to be a virtual package. In light of this, we should drop +cjk:

- keywords can be mismatched (noto-20250401 ~sparc , noto-cjk-20190416 sparc).
- it sends the wrong message about the intention of the package.
- noto is not dependent on noto-cjk in any way, similar to noto-emoji.

Though it is already included in the wiki, we can also include an ebuild-elog that suggests fonts-meta if someone needs to pull in all the noto fonts. This is slightly overkill, but since it's such a relied on package, the tip may help a lot of people.