[Bug 1677077] Re: Unnecessary (?) font dependencies
No response in nearly a year. This is extremely frustrating. To clarify the above comment, this is not really about saving disk space, per se. Rather, the point is that in this case, the "shared library" approach wastes space, which completely defeats the purpose. The real frustration for ordinary users is that when packages like this pull in large collections of fonts, they pollute the font lists of applications like LibreOffice. The kneejerk response I've seen is "you should disable them with a font manager", but the current options are defunct (fontmatrix) or so broken as to be unusable (Gnome and KDE's font managers). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1677077 Title: Unnecessary (?) font dependencies To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/retroarch-assets/+bug/1677077/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1677077] Re: Unnecessary (?) font dependencies
Just found out what is going on (immediately after posting this bug -- figures). There's code in the packaging...whatever it is...that replaces the font files with symlinks to system fonts: https://git.launchpad.net/~libretro/libretro/+git/retroarch-assets- debian/tree/links.in. I suppose that closes this "bug". Still, I'm of the opinion that requiring a 70MB dependency just to get a 1.6MB font is counterproductive, but where do I post a bug report about this?? As should be obvious by now, I'm finding it difficult to figure out how everything on Launchpad connects. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1677077 Title: Unnecessary (?) font dependencies To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/retroarch-assets/+bug/1677077/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
