>>>>> Keith Packard <kei...@keithp.com> writes: >>>>> Ivan Shmakov <oneing...@gmail.com> writes:
>> Unless there's a specific problem with that, please downgrade the >> dependency on the font packages to Recommends:. > fontconfig isn't useful without at least one font installed on the > system. Many fontconfig using applications will crash if there > aren't any fonts on the system at all. ACK, thanks for the clarification. However, it may be considered a bug in those applications, and downgrading the dependency to Recommends: may still be justified as long as there's a considerable amount of software (depending directly or indirectly on fontconfig) that remains useful even in the absence of any fonts. > In the case of gnunet-server, it's using libextractor3 which provides > PDF support, and rendering arbitrary PDF files will require at least > one font accessed through fontconfig. The point is that, AIUI, libextractor3 is used to extract keywords from PDF files, and /not/ to /render/ them. Therefore, I'd expect for GNUnet node to operate even if no fonts are installed on the system. (I'd expect the same from, say, pdftotext of poppler-utils, BTW.) By this weekend, I hope to check if it's possible (and sensible) to run a GNUnet node (or other software depending on fontconfig) without any of the fonts installed. -- FSF associate member #7257 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org