Bug 312077

Summary:	media-fonts/font-misc-meltho and media-fonts/font-misc-ethiopic have unnecessary dependencies
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Faustus <orlovm>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Faustus 2010-03-30 13:30:41 UTC

font-misc-meltho and font-misc-ethiopic (and possibly others) are TrueType fonts, but because of the way the ebuilds are written, depend on x11-apps/bdftopcf, media-fonts/font-util, and media-fonts/font-alias. Those dependencies are unnecessary in TrueType-only modular X environment. I have used the following ebuild successfully for font-misc-meltho-1.0.0 (not attaching, because I'm sure there are more canonical ways to write the ebuild, and also because I didn't test it with ~1.0.1):

inherit font

DESCRIPTION="X.Org Syriac fonts"
HOMEPAGE="http://xorg.freedesktop.org/"
SRC_URI="http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/font/${P}.tar.bz2"

LICENSE="X11"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="amd64 x86"

# Docs to install
DOCS="README ChangeLog license.txt"

# Space delimited list of font suffixes to install
FONT_SUFFIX="otf"

# Dir containing the fonts
FONT_S="${S}"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2018-05-08 22:20:57 UTC

Neither media-fonts/font-misc-meltho nor media-fonts/font-misc-ethiopic have a dependence on x11-apps/bdftopcf. Unsure when that happened.

Don't think it's worth messing with the eclass to avoid the dependencies on font-alias and font-util.

Marking fixed.