[Bug 670615] New: font autoprovides can be a bit overzealous

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Summary: font autoprovides can be a bit overzealous

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=670615

           Summary: font autoprovides can be a bit overzealous
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
          Platform: Unspecified
        OS/Version: Unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: low
         Component: fontpackages
        AssignedTo: nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
        ReportedBy: notting at redhat.com
         QAContact: extras-qa at fedoraproject.org
                CC: tagoh at redhat.com, nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net,
                    fonts-bugs at lists.fedoraproject.org
    Classification: Fedora
    Target Release: ---


Description of problem:

# repoquery  -q --whatprovides "font(:lang=xh)" | wc -l
333

That seems high. Especially when something requiring fonts that support xhosa
can have the dependencies satisfied by, for example:

...
Name        : cave9-mutante-fonts
Fantasy/display font used by the cave9 game, this font has only the basic
characters used in the Portuguese language was made as an experiment by the
designer Jonas Kühner (http://www.criatipos.com/) the font was altered by
the game developer to also include numbers.
...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

1.44-1.fc14

How reproducible:

100%

Additional info:

Was discovered when using pungi, which pulls all providers of a particular
require when composing trees.

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