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FS#46927 - [libwmf] Should not hard-depend on gsfonts
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Opened by Jerome Leclanche (Adys) - Saturday, 31 October 2015, 13:18 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Thursday, 27 September 2018, 14:49 GMT
Opened by Jerome Leclanche (Adys) - Saturday, 31 October 2015, 13:18 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Thursday, 27 September 2018, 14:49 GMT
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Detailsgsfonts isn't actually needed by libwmf - maybe optionally by one of the binaries it provides. The dependency causes packages like The Gimp to pull in gsfonts, which in turn causes a bunch of mostly useless fonts to reside on user systems for no good reason.
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This task depends upon

Any update on this?

I would also like to see this resolved, and keep the fonts installed on my system the ones I explicitly need.