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Unwanted fonts
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.

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Regards,
Peter.
Re: Unwanted fonts [ In reply to ]
On Mon, 2 Oct 2023 at 13:06, Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> 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
Re: Unwanted fonts [ In reply to ]
On Monday, 2 October 2023 12:38:02 BST Arve Barsnes wrote:

> 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.

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Regards,
Peter.
Re: Unwanted fonts [ In reply to ]
On 10/2/23 10:15, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday, 2 October 2023 12:38:02 BST Arve Barsnes wrote:
>
>> 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.
>

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

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Cara
Re: Unwanted fonts [ In reply to ]
On Monday, 2 October 2023 15:15:44 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday, 2 October 2023 12:38:02 BST Arve Barsnes wrote:
> > 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.

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.
Re: Unwanted fonts [ In reply to ]
On Monday, 2 October 2023 15:33:13 BST Cara Salter wrote:

> 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...

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Regards,
Peter.
Re: Unwanted fonts [ In reply to ]
On Monday, 2 October 2023 15:35:18 BST Michael wrote:

> 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.

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Regards,
Peter.
Re: Unwanted fonts [ In reply to ]
On Monday, 2 October 2023 16:32:41 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday, 2 October 2023 15:35:18 BST Michael wrote:
> > 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.
Re: Unwanted fonts [ In reply to ]
On Mon, 02 Oct 2023 17:51:53 +0100, Michael wrote:

> > 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.


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Neil Bothwick

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Well, I treat mine like 'n AMUSEMENT PARK... S'great...
Re: Unwanted fonts [ In reply to ]
On Monday, 2 October 2023 21:57:33 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Oct 2023 17:51:53 +0100, Michael wrote:
> > > 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. :-)