EPEL getting terminus-fonts added to 7

[Christopher Meng]

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Jens Petersen <petersen at redhat.com> wrote:
>> This requirement seems to be just in the fedora spec file -- it doesn't seem
>> to be part of the upstream. From the man page, this is set with the '-fn'
>> flag at runtime. I didn't look at xmonad, but there's nothing inherently in
>> dmenu which seems to need it. I removed terminus-fonts with --nodeps from a
>> test system, and it seems to run fine.... maybe that's an easier solution?
>
> Right I also put that idea to Christopher.
> I am not really sure why dmenu requires terminus-fonts in particular:
> though it does need some bitmap font to be installed to work.


On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Jens Petersen <petersen at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Having a new font in the EPEL repo won't hurt anything, but if users
>> lack one choice to do what they want, that would be a pity.
>
> Sure, it is good to have more fonts in EPEL.
>
> Nevertheless the question remains: does dmenu
> really need an explicit requires on terminus-fonts?

Quite frankly, it's no needed as a MUST. You could let users to
install. When I claimed over this package months ago, it's already
there.

I could drop this requires, but I need time to verify the conf file
and make sure dmenu works still(no major changes in the display).
Unfortunately, I don't have time now.

If someone can help test and feedback the pros and cons of the drop of
the terminus, that's really helpful here...

Thanks.

Yours sincerely,
Christopher Meng

Noob here.

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