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Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,914

ttf-bitstream-vera conflicts with Xorg ?

Today i wanted to try something and decided to remove ttf-ms-fonts and install ttf-bitstream-vera (vera for short).
I only had current & extra enabled in pacman.conf, but when i did pacman -S ttf-bitstream-vera i got the message that it conflicts with xorg, and if i wanted to remove xorg.

Using the packages list on Archlinux.org , i 've tracked this down:

ttf-bitstream-vera
  fontconfig
     expat
        glibc
          none
     freetype2
        zlib
          glibc
            none

Nowhere is there any reference to xorg.

Anyone have an idea how ttf-bitstream-vera could conflict with xorg ?

EDIT :

there's something weird with fontconfig :
the package in current has the same version number as the one in testing, but is from a later date.

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iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: ttf-bitstream-vera conflicts with Xorg ?

If you look in PKGBUILD from xorg you'll see 'conflicts=(ttf-bitstream-vera)' included in the file. I think it's because the bitstream fonts are packaged separate for xorg 7 in testing.

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: ttf-bitstream-vera conflicts with Xorg ?

If you look in PKGBUILD from xorg you'll see 'conflicts=(ttf-bitstream-vera)' included in the file. I think it's because the bitstream fonts are packaged separate for xorg 7 in testing.

That's correct. The xorg from current contains the vera fonts.

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,914

Re: ttf-bitstream-vera conflicts with Xorg ?

Thanks, that makes clear why it failed.

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Father

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From: Australia

Registered: 2004-06-01

Posts: 209

Re: ttf-bitstream-vera conflicts with Xorg ?

So what should we do in the mean time?

[root@64-3200 father]# pacman -Su
:: gdm: local (2.8.0.7-5) appears to be newer than repo (extra/2.8.0.7-3)
:: Above packages will be skipped.  To manually upgrade use 'pacman -S <pkg>'
:: ttf-bitstream-vera conflicts with xorg. Remove xorg? [Y/n]

[root@64-3200 father]# pacman -S xorg
:: ttf-bitstream-vera conflicts with xorg. Remove xorg? [Y/n]

[root@64-3200 father]# pacman -Si xorg-server
Repository        : current
Name              : xorg-server
Version           : 1.0.1-4
Groups            : None
Provides          : x-server
Depends On        : <snip> ttf-bitstream-vera <snip>
                    xorg-fonts-misc xorg-server-utils xorg-utils
Conflicts With    : None
Replaces          : None

[root@64-3200 father]# pacman -Qs ttf-bitstream-vera
[root@64-3200 father]#

Because apparently xorg is what depends on ttf-bitstream-vera, but ttf-bitstream-vera conflicts with xorg?!
I can't see how this made it into current if it doesnt work at all..
Im totally confused..

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: ttf-bitstream-vera conflicts with Xorg ?

exact same thread three below here:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=18969

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