svn commit: r482482 - head/x11-fonts/liberation-fonts-ttf

[Tobias Kortkamp]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018, at 15:04, Thierry Thomas wrote:
> Le sam. 20 oct. 18 à 12:40:55 +0200, Tobias Kortkamp <tobik at FreeBSD.org>
>  écrivait :
> 
> > On Sat, Oct 20, 2018, at 12:26, Thierry Thomas wrote:
> > > Author: thierry
> > > Date: Sat Oct 20 10:26:43 2018
> > > New Revision: 482482
> > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/482482
> > > 
> > > Log:
> > >   - Upstream switched to GitHub
> > >   
> > >   - Upgrade to 2.00.3 and build it.
> > 
> > [1] shows that there is a release tarball with prebuilt font files [2].
> > What's the benefit of building the fonts ourselves?
> > 
> > [1] https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts/releases
> > [2] https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts/files/2012634/liberation-fonts-ttf-2.00.3.tar.gz
> 
> Yes, there is, but a GH_DISTNAME macro is missing from our GH_ stuff,
> and I do not want to handle a specific MASTER_SITES for that.

So everyone is forced to live with additional build dependencies
for a tiny bit of extra maintainer convenience?  :-(

Building fontforge is not something you'd have to do to build a
package set for a FreeBSD desktop normally.

> Furthermore it is now possible to get other formats (woff, etc.) if
> someone needs them.

Has someone actually requested it? Anyway this could be a non-default
option in the port.

> The disadvantage is only some BUILD_DEPENDS for ports builders, but
> these are light ports.

These things add up fast.