[Pkg-blender-maintainers] Bug#463749: Bug#463749: blender: Use ttf-dejavu instead of ttf-bitstream-vera

[Cyril Brulebois]

Hi Sven,

On 02/02/2008, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> Would it be possible for Blender to depend upon ttf-dejavu instead
> of ttf-bitstream-vera?

at the moment, font-handling in Blender is a bit of mistery to me,
since they are doing (and shipping) strange stuff, and the runtime
isn't clear to me; but that's definitely a question I planned to ask.

> The difference between the two isn't huge, but dejavu has a lot of
> fixes and is actively maintained. Unless I misunderstand fontconfig,
> dejavu is used by default, but vera will be used instead if it's
> found, giving users a slightly worse default for "sans" and "serif".
> 
> Also, as can be seen in bug 461276, the ttf-bistream-vera maintainer
> aims to remove vera, replacing it with dejavu.

Thanks for the pointer.

Cheers,

-- 
Cyril Brulebois
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