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Jeremy Olexa wrote: |
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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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>>> |
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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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I think the proposal for a virtual/fonts is very useful. I don't know if |
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there are any cases where bitmap fonts would be needed instead of |
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truetype fonts. But if that is the case, we should make separate |
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virtuals for those. |
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I think it would be best to add the more common font packages to the |
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fonts virtual, and not all. I'd propose something along the lines of: |
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|| ( dejavu liberation-fonts ttf-bitstream-vera corefonts ) |
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