Hi, On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 09:39:14PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > currently, the libreoffice meta-package pulls in both > fonts-sil-gentium-basic and fonts-dejavu packages by hard > dependencies. I mean, sure libreoffice needs some fonts to work > properly, but (1) why does it need two font families installed and (2) > why does it have to be these two?
Because this is a metapackage and is supposed to install (mostly) everything a upstream install would also install. And upstream includes those fonts. > I guess with just fonts-liberation or fonts-croscore of fonts-texgyre liberation once was there before (until it got demoted to Recommends back in OOo times (see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=509193) and later git moved to -common (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=747132) > installed it is possible to work just as productively? That is not the point of this package. That would be the point if it was in -core or -common or some mdule package :). You also can work with LO productively without using Base and Java nowadays, still it's installed (together with Java) Regards, Rene
