Bug 265890

Summary:	x11-base/xorg-server should depend on media-fonts/font-cursor-misc
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Antti Mäkelä <zarhan>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Antti Mäkelä 2009-04-12 20:07:00 UTC

After xorg-server 1.5.3 was stabilized and I upgraded to it as part of normal procedure (emerge -uvDaN world && emerge --depclean), font-cursor-misc was removed as part of the depclean.

The end result was that since I had another font which also defined the basic X cursor, I suddendly got a weird cursor instead of the default one.

Suggesting that font-cursor-misc is added back to the basic dependencies of xorg-server.

(Also lots of basic utils were gone, like xdpyinfo, but I guess this is also intentional).

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-04-16 04:12:41 UTC

x11-base/xorg-x11 does depend on media-fonts/font-cursor-misc...

Comment 2 Antti Mäkelä 2009-04-16 06:12:42 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> x11-base/xorg-x11 does depend on media-fonts/font-cursor-misc...
> 

7.4 does, but 7.2 apparently does not.

Do note that when xorg-server 1.5.3 was stabilized, the stable xorg-x11 remained at 7.2.

Comment 3 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-04-19 11:22:02 UTC

Same issue, the X server no longer needs those fonts itself (the previous versions did really need the fonts).

As for the xorg-x11 meta, it will be stabilized later on. If you have any issues with specific applications failing due to the missing font, please open bugs against those.

Thanks

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 265397 ***