unifont package removed

Chasing ways to reduce the size of the Easy download .img file, posted earlier about reducing the size of the 'libllvm19' package:

• Decrease size of libllvm — May 29, 2026

Using Gdmap to have a pictorial view of what else might be causing unnecessary bloat, discovered the 'unifont' package. This is a dependency of SolveSpace (parametric CAD app), but SolveSpace will work without it, as there are already adequate installed fonts.

unifont has two dependencies 'fonts-unifont' and 'psf-unifont', and all three occupy about 57Mb space, uncompressed. That's a lot of bloat.

Simple solution, I created a dummy package for 'unifont', using equivs. The other two are still available in the Devuan repository, but are no longer being pulled in builtin into easy.sfs.   

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