Hello, Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> writes:
[...] >> It is great to have ‘font-abattis-cantarell’ built from source (since >> commit 97766323bc6e2b4dcfba4d6b46749a4280bca709), but it’s costly. >> >> There’s probably not much we can do, unless the python-afdko -> icedtea >> dependency is optional. >> >> Ideas? > > I looked into this one since it was causing mate to not appear for > i686-linux. I wasn't able to remove the java dependency for the font, > generating the font explicitly imports cffsubr. Python-cffsubr needs > python-afdko for the 'tx' command. I suppose we could re-bundle it but I > haven't gone down that rabbit hole yet. > > Or we could just make that font optional. The later sounds easiest, but is it really problematic to have Java as a transitive native input to GNOME? I mean, it already depends on Rust, and OpenJDK builds orders of times faster than Rust. -- Thanks, Maxim
