Roboto font associated with texlive breaks chrome font rendering

Bug #1877436 reported by Ruiming Xiong
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Bug Description

Bug occured on 20.04, but not on 18.04, when installing the texlive-full metapackage.

The texlive-fonts-extra installs the font package "fonts-roboto-unhinted". Unfortunately, this version of the font breaks font rendering inside chrome--the roboto github release states that linux chrome requires the hinted version of roboto. The most obvious way to produce this bug is to look at the description of any item inside the Chrome webstore, which uses roboto light font.

I ended up installing texlive using the installer script directly, but there should probably be a fix for this (eg. possibly changes the dependency to fonts-roboto-hinted if that is acceptable).

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