FS#5218 - Add DejaVu fonts

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Eugenia) - Sunday, 13 August 2006, 20:32 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Please add DejaVu fonts on Arch. The main reason some distros did not ship Gnome by default using Bitstream Vera was because Vera doesn't have enough glyphs in it (Owen Taylor of Pango was against Vera because of this). But now DejaVu reuses Vera's fonts but adds more glyphs. FC6 has moved to DejaVu by default now.
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Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Wednesday, 15 November 2006, 20:19 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Monday, 14 August 2006, 13:00 GMT
ttf-dejavu is in Community. But IMHO it should be in Extra, as well as ttf-freefont.
Comment by Dimos Dimoulis (dimosd) - Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 10:28 GMT
Distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora and even the upcoming Slackware release are replacing Bistream Vera with Dejavu.

As it is now, there is insufficient support in Arch for languages other than Western European. Please consider giving Dejavu the same treatment as Bitstream Vera (including patching /etc/fonts/fonts.conf)

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