Bug#588719: openoffice.org: metapackage should not depend on fonts - gentium is broken
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> > It seems like the metapackage should not depend on any ttf fonts.
>
> What seems is not relevant. If you don't want those fonts,
> just don't install the metapackage.
But then if someone adds a new and helpful dependency to the
metapackage, I miss out when I dist-upgrade.
> ttf-sil-gentium-basic is needed to make use of OOOs
> graphite feature, for example.
>
> > Using Gentium Book Basic from ttf-sil-gentium-basic
> > seems to screw everything up. (See #587937) Is there a
> > need for the menus
>
> And? Why were you using that font?
It used to work, before a recent upgrade. It looks nice.
Is 587937 actually a bug in libgraphite3, then? I could not
get my documents to stop eating CPU, even though I changed
the fonts. I had to remove the font packages entirely to
get them out of the documents - strange.
Mark
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