On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:09:30 +0100,
Kirill A. Korinsky <kir...@korins.ky> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:30:58 +0100,
> Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On 2025/01/10 16:23, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote:
> > > 
> > > The only reason I wanted to add this font at all is simple: there's no way
> > > to use emoji in Gtk applications. Nerd and other fonts are PNG based and
> > > need PNG support in freetype.
> > > 
> > > I doubt that libpng in the base can be sold for a reason "add emoji", am I
> > > wrong?
> > 
> > I don't know. Personally I would prefer _not_ to have libpng itself
> > installed separately as part of base but I wouldn't be opposed to a copy
> > in xenocara statically linked into freetype.
> >
> 
> I think it should be separated discussion.
> 
> > > With that assumption, the idea of simplifying end-user life by just 
> > > pkg_add
> > > openmoji, which can be done as a RDEP for something like pango. Note that
> > > this new setting doesn't affect emoji in Wiresshark and Telegram (which 
> > > are
> > > both Qt based), Chrome and Firefox.
> > 
> > Added as an RDEP of a common port would be even worse than I was
> > expecting ;)
> > 
> > > Do you still think we should ask users to run a command to fix their 
> > > fonts?
> > 
> > While it may fix them for some people, it may break them for others.
> > And you can't just rm the file from /etc/fonts/conf.d because pkg_add -u
> > will put it back.
> >
> 
> Fair.
> 
> Here an updated tgz which includes all your remakrs.
> 
> Ok?
> 

Friendly ping.

-- 
wbr, Kirill

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