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On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:03:53 -0500 |
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Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o> wrote: |
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> I'm thinking that a virtual/fonts package would be a good addition to |
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> the tree. We have hit this issue in Gentoo Prefix where any font |
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> package would satisfy a dependency. I also have an open bug where a |
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> package depends on corefonts but the reporter has stated that another |
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> fonts package will work. Frankly, I would rather *not* depend on the |
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> proprietary M$ fonts, myself. So my proposal would be to make every |
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> fonts package satisfy some virtual and then other packages can depend |
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> on that virtual to satisfy the need for *some* fonts. I just don't |
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> have a game plan for the best way to do it. |
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> Do you people agree that this could be useful? |
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> Does anyone have a suggestion for the best way to get it done? |
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Is it something like currently deps on corefonts but liberation-fonts |
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works? I think there was a bug open somewhere for that at some point. |
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I could see a virtual on a some agreed upon choice of core fonts, but |
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to have every font package in it... |
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There are also lot of packages that depend on ttf-bitstream-vera that |
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might work just as easily with dejavu. |
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