FS#59165 - [ttf-fira-code] Font package should not have any dependencies
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Opened by Khaled Hosny (khaledhosny) - Thursday, 28 June 2018, 00:26 GMT
Last edited by Jiachen Yang (farseerfc) - Tuesday, 03 July 2018, 04:57 GMT
Opened by Khaled Hosny (khaledhosny) - Thursday, 28 June 2018, 00:26 GMT
Last edited by Jiachen Yang (farseerfc) - Tuesday, 03 July 2018, 04:57 GMT
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Description:
Installing ttf-fira-code installs also fontconfig and xorg-font-utils. None of these is required for the fonts to function, and install hooks already take care of updating the font cache. Though depending on fontconfig is not a big issue, the other package is of little use on modern Linux systems. |
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Closed by Jiachen Yang (farseerfc)
Tuesday, 03 July 2018, 04:57 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: Removed dependencies in 1.205-3
Tuesday, 03 July 2018, 04:57 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: Removed dependencies in 1.205-3
xorg-mkfontdir should ideally be pulled in by xorg (or software which specifically needs the legacy mkfontdir index), and, hmm, I think this may already be the case via xorg-fonts-misc.
See also
FS#59164.Now I decided that keeping these dependencies is indeed a bad idea.
Will remove these in 1.205-3