Bug#836416: libreoffice: Depends on both fonts-sil-gentium-basic and fonts-dejavu
Hi,
On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 09:39:14PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> currently, the libreoffice meta-package pulls in both
> fonts-sil-gentium-basic and fonts-dejavu packages by hard
> dependencies. I mean, sure libreoffice needs some fonts to work
> properly, but (1) why does it need two font families installed and (2)
> why does it have to be these two?
Because this is a metapackage and is supposed to install (mostly)
everything a upstream install would also install. And upstream includes
those fonts.
> I guess with just fonts-liberation or fonts-croscore of fonts-texgyre
liberation once was there before (until it got demoted to Recommends back
in OOo times (see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=509193)
and later git moved to -common
(https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=747132)
> installed it is possible to work just as productively?
That is not the point of this package. That would be the point if it was
in -core or -common or some mdule package :). You also can work with LO
productively without using Base and Java nowadays, still it's installed
(together with Java)
Regards,
Rene
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