FS#7091 - emacs should have fonts as dependency or suggest them

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Niklas Volbers (nv) - Monday, 07 May 2007, 17:12 GMT
Last edited by Jürgen Hötzel (juergen) - Sunday, 30 December 2007, 20:32 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jürgen Hötzel (juergen)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.8 Voodoo
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Emacs requires a font package to display its characters properly in an X environment, i.e. you need to install xorg-fonts-100dpi (or maybe some other suitable font package) to have characters displayed as such -- without, emacs will display empty rectangles instead.

See this forum thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=32655

So, emacs should either have a font package as dependency (probably bad idea, since there might be different alternatives), or at least suggest the installation of such.
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Closed by  Jürgen Hötzel (juergen)
Sunday, 30 December 2007, 20:32 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  Maybe someday pacman has optional dependencies. It's obvious that emacs needs X-fonts when run as X11 client.

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