Re: font missing in firefox

[pin <voidpin%protonmail.com@localhost>]

> > BTW, your email may have been delayed from reaching the mailing list
> > archive due to being html.

Yes, that's a general problem when answering from mobile.
Sorry but, I was away for 5 days.

> It seems that today, freetype2 without those dependencies can't handle
> things that the rest of the world expects it to, and thus is deficient.
> So pkgsrc freetype2 should depend on png and brotli.
> 
> The question in builtin.mk is when base is good enough, and it seems
> pretty clear to me that we have arrived at "freetype2 without png and
> brotli is deficient and should not be used".
> 
> Thus, anything in pkgsrc that depends on freetype2 should, on NetBSD,
> end up with pkgsrc freetype2, and that's ok.
> 
> Perhps you mean to introduce some preference variable that says "it's ok
> for freetype2 to be deficient in way X", to modify builtin.mk, or even
> optionize those dependencies. Without really understanding, that feels
> like more complexity than benefit. freetype2 with those libs is only
> twice the size what it is without.

Maybe we should pull-in png and brotli into base?!
It doesn't make much sense to keep a base freetype2 that doesn't live up
to expectations.

/pin