* Justin B Rye ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Package: gozer
> Version: 0.7.nofont.1-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> If I don't specify a font, gozer falls back on a compiled-in default
> which is now very unlikely to be installed on the system: 
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gozer -t text file.png
> gozer error: failed to load font helmetr/16
> 
> This is true even if I have downloaded that non-DFSG-compliant font
> to /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype, because /etc/gozerrc resets the
> fontpath to ignore everything outside /usr/share/fonts/truetype (the
> directory itself, not its populated subdirectories) and the 
> nonexistent /usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice.  Specifying an
> appropriate fontpath on the commandline doesn't help - the packaged
> rcfile takes priority.

Are you sure the package rcfile takes priority? Looking at the code
this really doesn't seem to be the case. 
 
> You could reduce the number of hoops users have to jump through by
> resetting the default to some font you then provide.  (Or one in a
> package you recommend; but full dependencies are usually frowned on,
> since apps should in principle be able to use a remote fontserver.)

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