[bug #40323] GRUB 2 depends on specific fonts when used with truetype support

[Luke Dashjr]

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                 Summary: GRUB 2 depends on specific fonts when used with
truetype support
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: lukedashjr
            Submitted on: Mon 21 Oct 2013 01:33:20 GMT
                Category: None
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 
                 Release: other
         Reproducibility: Every Time
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

Per https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=488670 , upstream GRUB depends on
dejavu and unifont specifically. It really should accept any truetype font.

If that isn't possible, please choose other fonts. dejavu's license is
non-free (regardless of loopholes/technicalities might or might not be usable
to try to argue around it) and unifont breaks rendering of many characters by
becoming the preferred fallback somehow.




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