The "Fonts" catagory in the seeds don't get generated, also redundant fonts in "supporting bits"

[Pranav Sharma]

I still don't get it. If fonts are stripped from the package lists how
does fonts-hack-ttf and fonts-noto-hinted persist as a dependency? What is
stopping fonts-symbola from being included as well so fonts render properly
out of the box?

On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Pranav Sharma <pranav.sharma.ama at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Is there a way to include fonts-symbola with the required fonts like noto
> and hack? Already ran this by Mr. Riddell, it is a font that enables emoji
> support, an apparently Kubuntu already ships with it. I thought adding it
> to the fonts category would work, but I don't know what is going on
> anymore.
>
> On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 3:17 AM, Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> wrote:
>
>> https://packaging.neon.kde.org/neon/seeds.git/tree/update?h=
>> Neon/release#n20
>>
>> On Jul 22, 2017 09:16, "Harald Sitter" <sitter at kde.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Because fonts get stripped to bypass platform fonts from Ubuntu
>>>
>>> On Jul 21, 2017 19:45, "Pranav Sharma" <pranav.sharma.ama at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I did a recent install and was surprised to see that I had black boxes
>>>> again. It seems like the "fonts" part of the seed is ignored. Also, the
>>>> other fonts like noto and hack are redundantly placed in "supporting bits".
>>>> Kind of confused, just want emojis out of the box.
>>>> https://packaging.neon.kde.org/neon/seeds.git/tree/desk
>>>> top?h=Neon/release
>>>> --
>>>> Pranav Sharma
>>>> Gmail Address <pranav.sharma.ama at gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>>
>
>
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> Pranav Sharma
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>
>


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