grub depends on libfreetype6
Bug #900726 reported by
agent 8131
This bug affects 1 person
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grub2 (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
grub depends on grub-common which depends on libfreetype6 from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04. I suspect this dependency is not needed and is best left uninstalled in server environments.
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It's used by /usr/bin/ grub-mkfont, which is needed in order to have custom fonts on the boot menu. This is not a common use case, but it's one that we want to support, including on servers, especially for the benefit of users whose language isn't supported by the default font. And I don't think that splitting the grub-common package just to get rid of the libfreetype6 library dependency makes sense - it's just a font library, it's not like it pulls in X. So the cost of splitting it outweighs the benefit IMHO and I think it should be left as-is.