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Ryan Hill wrote: |
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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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Yes, that is my open bug that I have at the moment. bug #215661. But it |
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is not the first time I have come across this. Maybe every font package |
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satisfying a virtual is silly, I don't know. Maybe there are only a |
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couple of package which can be interchanged, is it known which ones? If |
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that was the case, then it is trivial to do || ( corefonts |
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liberation-fonts ) and the case is closed here. |
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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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I have heard this as well. |
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