| Summary: | virtual/ttf-fonts: add corefonts USE flag | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Fonts Team <fonts> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| See Also: | https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=872089 | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
If there are no objections until then, I plan to apply this change on 2018-08-14. |
A number of packages require Microsoft corefonts (Arial, Times New Roman, Courier New) or the free substitutes croscorefonts or liberation-fonts. Currently, many of these packages hard depend on media-fonts/liberation-fonts or media-fonts/corefonts when actually they would work with any of the three packages. I propose to add a new USE flag "corefonts" to virtual/ttf-fonts which ensures that one of the corefonts packages is installed. Other packages could then depend on virtual/ttf-fonts[corefonts] instead of individual packages. IUSE="corefonts" RDEPEND="|| ( media-fonts/liberation-fonts media-fonts/croscorefonts media-fonts/corefonts !corefonts? ( || ( media-fonts/source-pro media-fonts/dejavu media-fonts/droid media-fonts/freefont ) ) )"