It should not be needed: nothing in Fedora seems to depend on it either. Reproducible: Always
FEDORA-2023-6b16ae800d has been submitted as an update to Fedora 40. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-6b16ae800d
FEDORA-2023-6b16ae800d has been pushed to the Fedora 40 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
Thank you, though I still wonder if/feel it might be better to drop the meta-package since it only encourage consumption of the bitmap fonts.