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

Pranav Sharma pranav.sharma.ama at gmail.com
Mon Jul 31 08:03:08 UTC 2017


I just found out what regex is / how to use sed. So if we add 's' to list
of lines to exclude, we should get the font that we want. Since its just
adding two characters, is it worth testing?

On Jul 25, 2017 3:55 PM, "Pranav Sharma" <pranav.sharma.ama at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Pranav Sharma
>> Gmail Address <pranav.sharma.ama at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>
>
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> Pranav Sharma
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