Bug 759256

Summary:	www-client/chromium: DEPEND on freetype[png]
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Chromium Project <chromium>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	PullRequest
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/18580
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Description William Breathitt Gray 2020-12-09 17:49:09 UTC

Some fonts (e.g. media-libs/noto-emoji) requires freetype with png support enabled in order to display properly in web browsers such as chromium. Adding DEPEND="media-libs/freetype[png]:=" to the chromium ebuild should resolve this issue.

See https://bugs.gentoo.org/753569 for why this was not added in the noto-emoji ebuild.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Ionen Wolkens gentoo-dev

2020-12-09 19:00:33 UTC

This applies to about anything that can use those fonts.
e.g. if I disable freetype[png] I can't see noto-emoji in xfce4-terminal anymore

But does that mean xfce4-terminal (or its deps used to render fonts), need to depend on freetype[png] now? For an optional font people may not be using?

I see this as the equivalent of disabling USE=jpeg on a package and wondering why jpeg images aren't showing anymore. USE=png isn't a desktop profile default for nothing.

Not that it's up to me, maybe maintainer will think otherwise.

Comment 2 Stephan Hartmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2020-12-09 20:19:57 UTC

This can't be solved by adding a USE dependency on media-libs/freetype[png], because chromium does not require it to build (or possibly any other application). I think the right approach here is to add an elog to media-libs/noto-emoji informing users to install media-libs/freetype with png support to work correctly in other applications (web browsers, terminals, ...). I therefore suggest to reopen bug #753569.