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Subject: Re: Too many fonts with X.org 7.2
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Benjamin Lutz <mail@maxlor.com> writes:

> I notice that with X.org 7.2, many more fonts are installed by default. 
> This includes many fonts that are probably very rarely used by most 
> people, like font-misc-ethiopic. I would prefer not to have those fonts 
> installed on my system. Simply pkg_deleting them is not a satisfying 
> solution, since it breaks dependencies, and the next time 
> xorg-fonts-truetype is updated, they'll be back.
>
> Sooo... could maybe the number of font dependencies be reduced, or some 
> of them made optional? Or is there some clever (and persistent) hack to 
> ignore some ports?

The port Makefile would need to be changed for any of these things.  
Feel free to submit patches (they are fairly simple changes), but I
can't guarantee (from a quick search) that none of the fonts are
expected by other parts of the X.org 7.2 infrastructure.