[gentoo-user] Unwanted fonts

[Peter Humphrey]

Hello list,

Has anyone found a way to exclude media-fonts/noto from a Plasma system?
They're a 1GB download and I have no intention of ever using them - DejaVu
suits me perfectly.

[Arve Barsnes]

Post by Peter Humphrey
Has anyone found a way to exclude media-fonts/noto from a Plasma system?
They're a 1GB download and I have no intention of ever using them - DejaVu
suits me perfectly.

If they're actually not in use, try package.provided.

# echo "media-fonts/noto" >> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided
# emerge -C media-fonts/noto

Regards,
Arve

[Peter Humphrey]

Post by Arve Barsnes
If they're actually not in use, try package.provided.
# echo "media-fonts/noto" >> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided
# emerge -C media-fonts/noto

Ah! Good idea, though I had to give a version as well:
# cat /etc/portage/profile/package.provided
media-fonts/noto-20220912

That means I'll be tripped up at the next noto update. Thanks for the idea
though.

[Cara Salter]

Post by Peter Humphrey

Post by Arve Barsnes
If they're actually not in use, try package.provided.
# echo "media-fonts/noto" >> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided
# emerge -C media-fonts/noto

# cat /etc/portage/profile/package.provided
media-fonts/noto-20220912
That means I'll be tripped up at the next noto update. Thanks for the idea
though.

Could you add ">media-fonts/noto-20220912" to package.mask? That (by my
understanding) would keep new versions from being installed.

--
Cara

[Peter Humphrey]

Post by Cara Salter
Could you add ">media-fonts/noto-20220912" to package.mask? That (by my
understanding) would keep new versions from being installed.

Yes, I've done that, and now it should blow up in my face when I try to
upgrade noto to the next version. Better than quietly ignoring me, as it
were...

[Michael]

Post by Peter Humphrey

Post by Arve Barsnes
If they're actually not in use, try package.provided.
# echo "media-fonts/noto" >> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided
# emerge -C media-fonts/noto

# cat /etc/portage/profile/package.provided
media-fonts/noto-20220912
That means I'll be tripped up at the next noto update. Thanks for the idea
though.

Noto and Hack media-fonts are listed as reverse dependencies for kde-plasma/
plasma-integration. With no USE flag to exclude them being available at
present, the package.provided solution can be used.

[Peter Humphrey]

Post by Michael
Noto and Hack media-fonts are listed as reverse dependencies for kde-plasma/
plasma-integration. With no USE flag to exclude them being available at
present, the package.provided solution can be used.

Reverse? Plasma-integration depends on those fonts, not the other way round.

[Michael]

Post by Peter Humphrey

Post by Michael
Noto and Hack media-fonts are listed as reverse dependencies for
kde-plasma/ plasma-integration. With no USE flag to exclude them being
available at present, the package.provided solution can be used.

Reverse? Plasma-integration depends on those fonts, not the other way round.

~ $ qdepends -d plasma-integration | grep noto
~ $

You can check the ebuild for plasma-integration.

[Neil Bothwick]

Post by Michael

Post by Peter Humphrey
Reverse? Plasma-integration depends on those fonts, not the other way round.

~ $ qdepends -d plasma-integration | grep noto
~ $
You can check the ebuild for plasma-integration.

RDEPEND is a run-time dependency. A reverse dependency would appear in
the noto ebuild.

[Michael]

Post by Neil Bothwick

Post by Michael

Post by Peter Humphrey
Reverse? Plasma-integration depends on those fonts, not the other way round.

~ $ qdepends -d plasma-integration | grep noto
~ $
You can check the ebuild for plasma-integration.

RDEPEND is a run-time dependency. A reverse dependency would appear in
the noto ebuild.

Oops! Sorry, I misread the variable. Thanks Neil. :-)