svn commit: r482482 - head/x11-fonts/liberation-fonts-ttf
Thierry Thomas
thierry at freebsd.org
Sat Oct 20 15:02:44 UTC 2018
Le sam. 20 oct. 18 à 15:21:58 +0200, Tobias Kortkamp <tobik at FreeBSD.org>
écrivait :
> > 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.
BUILD_DEPENDS do not belong to a packages set!
> > 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.
Not yet, and upstream do not build them by default, but Web Open Font
Format (WOFF) is a W3C recommendation.
This is a good case for multi-packages, and I'd like to add it when it
will be available.
> > The disadvantage is only some BUILD_DEPENDS for ports builders, but
> > these are light ports.
>
> These things add up fast.
OK, I've just added an item to my TODO-list:
- use something like GH_DISTNAME with USE_GITHUB is set.
--
Th. Thomas.
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