Bug 37757

Summary:	xfree ebuild shouldn't install ms-fonts
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) <jstubbs>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	foser, vapier
Priority:	High
Version:	1.4
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-01-09 19:32:37 UTC

with the truetype flag set, the current xfree ebuilds will manually install the ms "core" fonts. at minimum, this should be changed to a depend on media-fonts/corefonts. this would get rid of duplication of maintenance and remove the MSttfEULA license from xfree.

personally, i think the corefonts should not be installed at all with xfree, considering the following excerpt of use.desc:

truetype - Adds support for FreeType and/or FreeType2 fonts

Comment 1 Bryan Stine (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-01-10 00:15:44 UTC

I agree. Perhaps with 4.3.0-r4 this will be removed. I believe they are installed in xfree 4.3.0-r3 because the various *fonts ebuilds weren't available in portage. Now that corefonts, freefonts, et al. have been added, this can and should be removed.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-01-10 00:24:22 UTC

yes, the fonts were originally added to the xfree ebuild because the sep font packages did not exist

i personally added the corefonts one for unrelated reasons

Comment 3 Gabriel Ebner 2004-01-11 15:50:52 UTC

Who did actually use the USE flag truetype for Microsoft's fonts? After all, isn't truetype meant for FreeType support?

P.S.: Yes, I also think they should be removed from xfree, not only because of the license, they also have a horrible rendering when sub-pixel is turned on.

Comment 4 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-17 11:42:33 UTC

Fixed in 4.3.0-r6.