[MacPorts] #26057: xpdf cant find paper defn nor fonts

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Fri Nov 12 09:55:36 PST 2010


#26057: xpdf cant find paper defn nor fonts
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 Reporter:  davidh@…                 |       Owner:  ricci@…           
     Type:  defect                   |      Status:  assigned          
 Priority:  Normal                   |   Milestone:                    
Component:  ports                    |     Version:  1.9.1             
 Keywords:                           |        Port:  xpdf              
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Changes (by ricci@…):

  * status:  new => assigned


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:6 gale@…]:
 > Replying to [comment:4 macosx12345@…]:
 > > ...I suggest using the fonts that the port `urw-fonts` provides.
 > > I attached a patch proposal to xpdf's portfile that removes the
 > > run-depency to ghostscript, adds a run-dependency to urw-fonts
 > > and lets xpdf use the fronts from `urw-fonts` by default.
 >
 > I vote for this patch. That is a much lighter dependency, and it's
 > all we need.
 >

   I like the idea.  The part I don't like is that urw-fonts is no longer
 present at the source URL in the urw-fonts Portfile.  I'd rather have it
 depend on a set of fonts that's still being distributed, if anyone knows
 of such a thing (and if we already have a port for it), please append to
 this ticket.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/26057#comment:7>
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