the main fontconfig package is shipping vera-specific config info (in separate files even) It should be moved to the vera package so it's not processed by the system when vera is not installed
At the cost of adding a fontconfig dependency to bitstream-vera-fonts.
No, there's no harm installing vera-related setup info even if fontconfig is not installed. If fontconfig is installed it will be interpreted if not, not problem. The big change is fontconfig won't have to deal with vera setup if the truetype files are not on-system
The dependency is required since fontconfig owns /etc/fonts
Yes, directory ownership is a mess. Some people want every directory owned. Others absolutely loathe multiple ownership. IIRC the consensus was to move directories like /etc/fonts to a filesystem package, so they are owned by a single something but do not bring in optional code (The only caveats was you needed several directory users to make a case for filesystem, but right now we have the problem for every font package that ships fontconfig rules and our font guidelines sort-of imply /etc/fonts is used without a owner if it's not moved to filesystem)
Do you want a separate bug to move /etc/fonts from fontconfig to filesystem?
You could just pile onto bug 239246 which I filed earlier for similar cases.
(In reply to comment #6) > You could just pile onto bug 239246 which I filed earlier for similar cases. Ok, done. Thanks
I don't see any Vera stuff left in our fontconfig package. The rest of font-specific stuff has another bug filed for them already.
You have the unhint vera at small sizes rules that should be moved in vera package
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