The short answer is 'yes'.
I was able to rebuild nagios without freetype1. gfontview-0.5.0 does
not build without freetype1.
-Joseph
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On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 10:24 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> freetype-2.1.10-5.2.1.ppc.rpm contains:
>
> * libfreetype.so.6
> * libfreetype.so.6.3.8
> * libttf.so.2
> * libttf.so.2.3.0
>
> As for "nothing in core needs freetype 1.x", that may be correct. I
> encountered this issue when installing a couple of apps from "extras",
>
> * gfontview-0.5.0-5.fc5.ppc.rpm
> * nagios-2.4-2.fc6.ppc.rpm
So, it looks like freetype1 is a good candidate for Extras. (:
-- Rex
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