[Fedora-packaging] requiring a (non-specific) font?

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Fri Sep 28 20:14:06 UTC 2012


I happened to install Scratch onto a remove VM (on Fedora Infrastructure's
new private cloud, in fact) where no fonts were installed. It runs, but
Pango throws warnings about not having anything for 'latin' or 'common' --
and of course the UI has boxes where the menus and variables should be.

I could require something generic, like 'font(:lang=en)', but that's likely
to pull in a random decorative font.

I could require some specific font, but that seems wrong. (Particularly
since if a "better" match for latin or common happen to be installed,
whatever I said is a requirement will actually be irrelevant.)

Orrr, should I just not worry about this case?

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Matthew Miller  ☁☁☁  Fedora Cloud Architect  ☁☁☁  <mattdm at fedoraproject.org>


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