steam-meta should include steamfonts

[PseudoKrazy]

Hello,

When emerging only the steam-meta package, no text displayed for me in the steam client. Emerging steamfonts fixed this, but it seems logical that this should be included with the steam-meta package.

[anyc]

Hi, thanks for your report. Unfortunately, fonts are a bit difficult. It depends on your already installed fonts if you need steamfonts or not. On my machine, for example, steam works fine without this package. Steam-client-meta also has a use flag steamfonts that will pull in the package.

On the one hand, it's just a small package that could be installed unconditionally but on the other hand there are quite a few people that prefer to keep their system "clean". Do you think it would already help if we add a elog message that informs the user about this possible dependency?

[PseudoKrazy]

Makes sense to me; an elog message would be useful.

[anyc]

A bit late, sorry, but I just added it. Thanks!

[csamsel]

I guess the correct solution would be to depend either on the possibly preinstalled font which works (which ever that is) or steamfonts.

[anyc]

(which ever that is)

This is the problem as I don't know how to properly determine them.

[chewi]

Perhaps anything under virtual/ttf-fonts would work?

[csamsel]

well i guess, someone would have to dissect the installed fonts to find out which is working.

[anyc]

On my system, I wasn't yet able to reproduce the problem. Steamfonts only installs the Arial fonts. I removed this and the corefonts package but the steam client still worked normal. If I have some spare time again, I will check if there are other packages on my system which install a suitable font.

[ahyangyi]

Steam seems to able to utilize any TrueType and OpenType font on my machine -- I used to have a very minimalist approach to fonts where I used packages.provided to mask all font packs and only installed a single OpenType font that I personally bought, and Steam still works.