font-misc-meltho and font-misc-ethiopic (and possibly others) are TrueType fonts, but because of the way the ebuilds are written, depend on x11-apps/bdftopcf, media-fonts/font-util, and media-fonts/font-alias. Those dependencies are unnecessary in TrueType-only modular X environment. I have used the following ebuild successfully for font-misc-meltho-1.0.0 (not attaching, because I'm sure there are more canonical ways to write the ebuild, and also because I didn't test it with ~1.0.1): inherit font DESCRIPTION="X.Org Syriac fonts" HOMEPAGE="http://xorg.freedesktop.org/" SRC_URI="http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/font/${P}.tar.bz2" LICENSE="X11" SLOT="0" KEYWORDS="amd64 x86" # Docs to install DOCS="README ChangeLog license.txt" # Space delimited list of font suffixes to install FONT_SUFFIX="otf" # Dir containing the fonts FONT_S="${S}" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Neither media-fonts/font-misc-meltho nor media-fonts/font-misc-ethiopic have a dependence on x11-apps/bdftopcf. Unsure when that happened. Don't think it's worth messing with the eclass to avoid the dependencies on font-alias and font-util. Marking fixed.
