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Re: Missing font depenency



On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 06:02:16PM -0500, Jason Bacon wrote:
> 
> Just tried out emacs and gedit on CentOS 7, and both initially showed only
> rectangles for menu text.
> 
> Installing font-bh-ttf solve the problem for both.
> 
> Relevant part of my mk.conf:
> 
> X11_TYPE=        modular
> PREFER_NATIVE=        no
> PREFER_PKGSRC=        yes
> 
> I'm guessing systems with the base X11 don't have this issue, but a lot of
> packages are probably affected by it when using module X11 and I'm not sure
> where the dependency should be listed.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 

It's not just that, it's part of the "default xorg font set" that isn't
very common any more ("modular-xorg-fonts" for us)
It would be nice to make it a dependency, for modular xorg just adding
it as a dependency will be "free".
I have my own custom set of fonts too :-)


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