[Bug 1321551] New: RFE: Recommend some specific general purpose font

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1321551

Bug ID: 1321551
           Summary: RFE: Recommend some specific general purpose font
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
         Component: fontconfig
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Currently fontconfig has a dependency on font(:lang=en). For minimal setups
where fontconfig is involved in that don't specify anything more specific than
that, it results in getting the first satisfying package by alphabetical sort
order to be installed. At the moment that is aajohan-comfortaa-fonts, which is
not a very good default, and could change based on what names of packages are
available.

Instead, I suggest adding (in addition to the existing hard dependency on
font(:lang=en)) a Recommends that would by default (with dnf) pull in something
that is a better default and already a default in common Fedora installations,
such as abattis-cantarell-fonts which AFAIK is the default for GNOME. Some
other potential candidates would be liberation-sans-fonts and
dejavu-sans-fonts. Not sure if Suggests would work for this purpose, or if it
needs to be Recommends.

[Bug 1321551] RFE: Recommend some specific general purpose font

[Red Hat Bugzilla]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1321551

--- Comment #1 from Akira TAGOH  ---
Sorry, missed this one. I tend to agree with the concept of the idea. but I
want to move the interests of the discussion about what we should default to
the outside of fontconfig, because, dunno how often/many we will have such
discussion after implementing this idea into fontconfig though, rebuilding
fontconfig to apply the changes is a bit higher cost. that would be better
having a meta package or virtual package to do that and just require it in
fontconfig.

[Bug 1321551] RFE: Recommend some specific general purpose font

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1321551

Akira TAGOH  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |CLOSED
         Resolution|---                         |RAWHIDE
        Last Closed|                            |2018-06-07 04:13:42

--- Comment #2 from Akira TAGOH  ---
added Suggests: dejavu-sans-fonts to fontconfig-2.13.0-6.fc29