Bug#743897: gargoyle-free: please remove unneeded fonts-* dependencies

[Paul Wise]

On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 23:57 +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote:

> Anyway, selecting *specific* *free* fonts for Gargoyle was discussed
> at length with upstream at the time I contributed the fontconfig
> support, and they're pretty concerned about what fonts are used,
> especially since it can break a game rendering/layout.

The folks I was discussing this issue with apparently used it with the
DejaVu fonts for years without issues so perhaps upstream's concerns are
slightly overinflated?

Looking at the available screenshots I can't see how fonts like DejaVu
could break layout/rendering.

https://screenshots.debian.net/package/gargoyle-free
http://ccxvii.net/gargoyle/screenshots.html

> So let's keep the specific font dependencies.

How about dropping them to recommends, so that most people will get the
default chosen fonts and people who prefer other fonts can use those?

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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