Bug 54141 (suse39141) - fbiterm requires libXfont and freetype
Summary: fbiterm requires libXfont and freetype
Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX
Alias: suse39141
Product: openSUSE 10.2
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Basesystem (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All Linux
: P3 - Medium : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Mike Fabian
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Blocks: 50256
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Reported: 2004-04-19 23:39 UTC by Takashi Iwai
Modified: 2007-06-05 10:50 UTC (History)
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Description Takashi Iwai 2004-04-19 23:39:08 UTC 
since fbiterm requires libXfont and freetype shared libs, the minimal package
selection of japanese results in the installation of XFree86-libs.
libXfont and freetype should be linked statically.  the overhead is only 30kB.
Comment 1 Takashi Iwai 2004-04-19 23:39:08 UTC 
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install the minimal selection with japanese support in 9.1 installation.
Comment 2 Takashi Iwai 2004-04-19 23:55:01 UTC 
the fixed package is submitted to 9.1 and STABLE trees.
Comment 3 Thorsten Kukuk 2004-04-20 02:43:14 UTC 
I think this is a bad idea. This makes security updates very diffycult.
Comment 4 Takashi Iwai 2004-04-20 18:23:25 UTC 
hmm, but forcing the installation XF86-libs is also a bad idea.

dropping fbiterm from the selection is not possible, because otherwise yast
would show only garbled letters.

the required functions from libXfont are only bdf/pcf renderer.
i can try to reduce this dependency by adding/modifying proper functions
to fbiterm itself.
Comment 5 Ihno Krumreich 2004-05-10 16:59:05 UTC 
Any Progress?
Comment 6 Takashi Iwai 2004-05-10 17:12:16 UTC 
no time for this yet.
Comment 7 Ihno Krumreich 2004-09-28 23:37:22 UTC 
Any Progress?
Comment 8 Takashi Iwai 2004-09-28 23:44:56 UTC 
No.  It's a low priority on my TODO list.

If you think this a high priority, please assign this work to someone else
(or convince Thorsten to accept the static link :)
Comment 9 Ihno Krumreich 2005-02-04 04:46:48 UTC 
Any Progress?
Comment 10 Takashi Iwai 2005-02-05 02:43:25 UTC 
No.
Comment 11 Mike Fabian 2005-08-23 10:05:10 UTC 
Add xterm author, Thomas Dickey <dickey@herndon4.his.com> to CC:
Comment 12 Mike Fabian 2005-08-23 10:08:25 UTC 
Remove Thomas Dickey from CC: again, it was the wrong bug, sorry.
(I hate it when bugzilla displays the "next bug in my list" automatically).
Comment 13 Marcus Meissner 2006-07-03 09:44:13 UTC 
9.1 is dead, moving to 10.2

either close this bug or not.
Comment 14 Stephan Kulow 2006-09-01 07:50:17 UTC 
WONTFIX from my side
Comment 15 Mike Fabian 2007-01-17 04:50:23 UTC 
WONTFIX.
Comment 16 Ihno Krumreich 2007-01-22 23:17:58 UTC 
Closed.