Re: git: 77c04acae3e7 - main - x11-fonts/google-fonts: Remove expired port

Rene Ladan <rene@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> commit 77c04acae3e7847e6f41009ad05e44225c462dd2
> Author:     Rene Ladan <rene@FreeBSD.org>
> AuthorDate: 2025-12-04 20:14:09 +0000
> Commit:     Rene Ladan <rene@FreeBSD.org>
> CommitDate: 2025-12-04 20:14:09 +0000
>
>     x11-fonts/google-fonts: Remove expired port
>     
>     2025-12-03 x11-fonts/google-fonts: Depends on expired x11-fonts/gentium-basic

Please revert this.  It is completely backward.  You removed hundreds of
fonts that people were actually using just because you didn't understand
how the port works.

The reason why this port had a RUN_DEPENDS on gentium-basic is that its
source tarball includes a copy of gentium-basic, and it was deemed
preferable to depend on the existing port than to have two ports install
the same font.  Now that there is no longer a separate gentium-basic
port, you should just remove the dependency and the exclusion and update
the plist.  It would be even better to update the port to a newer
version (it's several years out of date), but I realize that may require
more work than you're willing to put in and that's ok.  Just don't break
people's desktops for no reason.

DES
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