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[Pander <714588@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(Experienced users) would like to install latest stable version of
DejaVu which has not been packages or is already being shipped with TeX
Live. Therefore, they would like to deinstall certain font packages so
that there is no confusion which font files are being used.

For most font packages, it is possible to deinstall them easily. However some software/library packages are depending on certain font packages. This is usually without any real reason. The same is happening for ttf-freefont as can be seen here:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ttf-freefont/+bug/667240
and here:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ttf-freefont/+bug/667242

I agree that the best way to use packages is to trust the package
dependency structure and I try to report whenever ttf-dejavu or ttf-
freefonts need upgrade. If this is taking too long, I should be able to
deinstall these packages and provide the files myself via manual
installation. But deinstallation should be possible without breaking
dependencies which (in my opinion) should not be there in the first
place.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/714588

Title:
  drop dependency on ttf-dejavu