FreeBSD Port: print/gsfonts please make Japanese and Chinese fonts optional dependencies

Miroslav Lachman 000.fbsd at quip.cz
Mon Dec 12 19:23:26 UTC 2016


Hiroki Sato wrote on 2016/12/12 18:57:
> Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd at quip.cz> wrote
>    in <584ED3CB.1060500 at quip.cz>:
>
> 00> Hi,
> 00>
> 00> we are using Xpdf which depends on Gsfonts and after last update there
> 00> are a bunch of new dependencies brought by Chinese and Japanese fonts"
> 00>
> 00> New packages to be INSTALLED:
> 00>         zh-font-std: 0.0.20090602
> 00>         zh-arphicttf: 2.11_5
> 00>         mkfontdir: 1.0.7
> 00>         mkfontscale: 1.1.2
> 00>         xproto: 7.0.31
> 00>         libfontenc: 1.1.3
> 00>         ja-font-std: 0.0.20130501
> 00>         ja-font-mplus-ipa: 1.0.20060520.p1_5
> 00>         ja-font-ipa: 00303_6
> 00>
> 00> We are not using any of these so I think they are useless for us. Can
> 00> this be made as optional dependency? It can be default ON, we are
> 00> using own poudriere repo but we are unable to disable them now.
>
>   Thank you for your report.  This problem should be fixed in the
>   latest print/gsfonts.

Thank you for your quick reply and action!

Your work is really appreciated.

Miroslav Lachman



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