[oe] [RFC] gtk+ and fonts

[Phil Blundell]

On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 16:41 +0100, Florian Boor wrote:
> our current GTK+ packages recommend a single Truetype font (ttf-dejavu-sans).
> This might pull in a quite large font collection that might be different from
> what the user wants. For a Japanese image e.g. you might not want these at all
> or you might just want different fonts (like the Android ones).
> 
> I would be fine removing this RRECOMMENDS entry without any replacement. Another
> option would be to create a virtual provider for basic ttf fonts and define a
> matching run time dependency.

Just removing that RRECOMMENDS (or weakening it to RSUGGESTS) would run
the risk of breaking images that are currently depending on it.  I
suspect there are probably quite a few of those and this might not be a
good idea.

Creating some kind of virtual for gtk+ to depend on instead of a
particular concrete font does sound like the best way forwards with
this.  And, of course, individual DISTROs are welcome to eliminate that
RRECOMMENDS in the gtk+ packaging.

p.