Re: font missing in firefox

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:

> In my NetBSD firefox they are displayed and I see that they have
> colors (the flag is a UK flag, the mailbox and lock are blue) so my
> guess is that they are fonts using PNGs internally.
>
> For that you need a freetype2 with PNG support. The one included in
> NetBSD does not support this (because that'd mean we need to
> distribute libpng), but the pkgsrc version has png support enabled by
> default.
>
> For that reason, I'm using modular X.org:
>
> X11_TYPE=       modular
>
> Setting that and recompiling your packages will most probably fix this.

Seems like firefox should require pkgsrc freetype2 then, given that the
base one is deficient.

<inflammatory>Unless we want to remove xsrc and stop pretending to have X11 in base.</>