Which fonts should be pulled in by desktop environments as dependencies?!

[Hedayat Vatankhah]

Hi all,
Recently, I come across a bug[1] in the dependencies of LXDE desktop
group, one part of which turned out to be applicable to other desktop
environments too: Fedora desktop environments does not depend on any
fonts at all.  So, if you does not have any fonts installed on your
system, and install one of such groups (e.g. gnome-desktop group) you'll
end up with a desktop environment without any fonts!

Now, as is being discussed in [1], which fonts should be pulled by a
desktop environment as its dependencies?

Thanks,
Hedayat

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678923

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le lundi 21 février 2011 à 21:42 +0330, Hedayat Vatankhah a écrit :
> Now, as is being discussed in [1], which fonts should be pulled by a
> desktop environment as its dependencies?

A DE should pull in the fonts group. That's the only font list proofed
by i18n for each release.

[Hedayat Vatankhah]

On ۱۱/۰۲/۲۲  12:30, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le lundi 21 février 2011 à 21:42 +0330, Hedayat Vatankhah a écrit :
> > Now, as is being discussed in [1], which fonts should be pulled by a
> > desktop environment as its dependencies?
>
> A DE should pull in the fonts group. That's the only font list proofed
> by i18n for each release.

Thanks for the answer. I also thought that it is reasonable, but wanted
to make sure before calling others for it. I just wonder if it is
possible to have group dependencies in comps.xml or by packages! What is
the best way for enforcing such dependencies in Fedora?

Thanks,
Hedayat

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Lun 21 février 2011 22:27, Hedayat Vatankhah a écrit :
> On ۱۱/۰۲/۲۲  12:30, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Le lundi 21 février 2011 à 21:42 +0330, Hedayat Vatankhah a écrit :
> > > Now, as is being discussed in [1], which fonts should be pulled by a
> > > desktop environment as its dependencies?
> >
> > A DE should pull in the fonts group. That's the only font list proofed
> > by i18n for each release.
>
> Thanks for the answer. I also thought that it is reasonable, but wanted
> to make sure before calling others for it. I just wonder if it is
> possible to have group dependencies in comps.xml or by packages! What is
> the best way for enforcing such dependencies in Fedora?

Well that is a question for fedora-devel and the tools people :)