Bug 342691 – app-text/texlive appears to have bogus dependency on freetype:1

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description dynamotwain 2010-10-26 04:21:56 UTC]

app-text/textlive-2010 has a dependency on media-libs/freetype:1[kpathesea] when the the `truetype' USE flag is set.

Neither app-text/texlive-core-2010 nor any package in dev-texlive/* depends on freetype 1.x. (texlive-core-2010 depends on freetype 2.x when `xetex' USE is set, but not 1.x).

After unmerging media-libs/freetype, neither portage-2.2 nor revdep-rebuild detected any broken binaries, so I believe this dependency is in fact extraneous and can safely be removed.

[Comment 1 dynamotwain 2010-10-26 04:22:41 UTC]

Created attachment 251981 [details, diff]
remove needless freetype 1.x dependency from texlive-2010

[Comment 2 Alexis Ballier 2010-10-26 13:28:39 UTC]

...

its for the ttf2* utilities...

[Comment 3 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) 2011-10-04 18:42:49 UTC]

It might be better to name the flag in some way to not collide with truetype, because mostly users don't need this feature and freetype:1 pulled in?

I am just reviewing my local useflag and stumbled upon this...
(feel free to close it again if you disagree as i have it fixed for myself anyway).

[Comment 4 Alexis Ballier 2011-10-05 21:05:31 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> It might be better to name the flag in some way to not collide with truetype,
> because mostly users don't need this feature and freetype:1 pulled in?

gentoo-x86/profiles $ grep truetype use.desc 
truetype - Adds support for FreeType and/or FreeType2 fonts

I guess there's no conflict :)

what I would like to see is a freetype:2 port of the ttf2* utilities

[Comment 5 orionbelt2 2012-02-18 03:31:54 UTC]

Well, it now looks like freetype-1.4 is unsafe:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-910786.html

Perhaps the suggestion in the forum thread to mask freetype-1.4 should be heeded to?

[Comment 6 orionbelt2 2012-02-18 03:39:02 UTC]

See also Bug 235412 and Bug 225851.