[Libreoffice] Bundled fonts

Michael Meeks michael.meeks at novell.com
Wed Dec 8 02:43:02 PST 2010


Hi Sebastian,

On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 10:53 +0100, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
> By default, we bundle 20MB of TTF fonts that I mostly have installed as
> system fonts already.

	Ah - true.

> --without-fonts (--with-fonts is the default) and 
> --enable-extra-font (not enabled by default, putting more .ttfs on your
> disk).

	I suggest we switch the developer defaults to not install these, any
chance of a tested patch [ the best way is to look at config.status and
re-run configure with the different options several times ].

> I hear that we most certainly need opens___.ttf in any case, so we
> should bundle that universally, and make --without-fonts the default
> then. Win32 distros can turn it on in their distro config if they want.

	Right.

> That would be 20MB saved on each make dev-install and I wouldnt run
> danger to pick up the wrong version of the DejaVu fonts.

	Sounds good to me; go for it ! :-)

	Thanks,

		Michael.

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