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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2023 14:43:11 +0300
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From: Alexander Scherbatiy <alexander.scherbatiy@bell-sw.com>
Subject: Font dependencies in Alpine Linux
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Hello,

If I install dejavu fonts on systems ubuntu:20.04, fedora:35, 
opensuse/leap:15.4 in docker they do not install fontconfig and freetype 
as dependencies.

DejaVu fonts have dependencies on fontconfig and freetype libraries on 
Linux Alpine .

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docker run -it alpine:3.17 ash
/ # apk update
/ # apk add font-dejavu
(1/10) Installing libexpat (2.5.0-r0)
(2/10) Installing brotli-libs (1.0.9-r9)
(3/10) Installing libbz2 (1.0.8-r4)
(4/10) Installing libpng (1.6.38-r0)
(5/10) Installing freetype (2.12.1-r0)
(6/10) Installing fontconfig (2.14.1-r0)
(7/10) Installing encodings (1.0.6-r0)
(8/10) Installing libfontenc (1.1.6-r0)
(9/10) Installing mkfontscale (1.2.2-r1)
(10/10) Installing font-dejavu (2.37-r3)
Executing busybox-1.35.0-r29.trigger
Executing fontconfig-2.14.1-r0.trigger
Executing mkfontscale-1.2.2-r1.trigger
OK: 28 MiB in 25 packages
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The use case which I have is using a docker with Linux Alpine to 
generate reports with Java in headless mode.
Java allows to use fonts on systems where the fontconfig is not 
installed by providing paths to fonts in <jdk>/lib/fontconfig.properties 
file.
Java also can be built with bundled freetype which is a subset of the 
full freetype library.


Is it necessary that fonts have dependencies on fontconfig and freetype 
libraries in Alpine Linux?

Thanks,
Alexander.