Bug 872089

Summary:	www-client/google-chrome depends on one particular font media-fonts/liberation-fonts instead of maybe virtual/ttf-fonts
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	genBTC
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Chromium Project <chromium>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Low
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627842
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description genBTC 2022-09-20 20:31:27 UTC

Current situation:
www-client/google-chrome depends on one particular font media-fonts/liberation-fonts 

Proposed solution:
change the depedency to virtual/ttf-fonts.

Reason to change:
User choice. Gentoo has a system for agnosticly substituting fonts already.
Seems like a normal enough decision from a technical point of view, or is there some other reason to obey google's upstream font choices ?

After overriding it myself and testing media-fonts/dejavu (the next top candidate in the virtual/ttf-fonts) for a while, it works well enough to where I don't actually notice a difference.

reaching out for comments

Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2022-09-20 20:36:36 UTC

The dependency was added in this commit without any specific explanation.

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=7376402bdc479441a16517c07a0f0182311ebad3

Unless there is a specific reason for it, I think we should just drop the dependency.

Comment 2 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2022-09-21 15:13:05 UTC

The dependency is present in the Debian packaging for chrome.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/59dcd0401fb1d6bb3ae7cf57fc66325c984d228f/chrome/installer/linux/debian/additional_deps#11