>>>>> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> Arthur Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ISHIKAWA Mutsumi schrieb: >> > For example, if ttf-xtt-* includes meta datas(fonts.alias, >> > fonts.scale, tfm and so on) and when only fonts.alias update and >> > upload. A user would download ttf-xtt-* package (include other files, >> > they are not updated), if the user use the package only for TeX (not >> > using for X).This update perhaps would not need the user.
>> How often will the xfonts-* package change without the ttf-* >> package changing as well? Probably never, at least not the >> stable packages. xfonts-xtt-* packages will change more freqently than ttf-xtt-* packages(from my experience.) For example, ttf-arphic-bkai00mp (this package provide Chinese TrueType font) was released only once, but xfonts-arphic-bkai00mp package (X related meta datas to use ttf-arphic-bkai00mp on X)was released 4th times. >> The cost of having some bytes more in the Packages.gz that >> _every_ user has to download (even ppl who don't know japanese) >> and greater resource usage of apt is much greater than the >> advantage of not having to download 3.6M once every total >> eclipse (only for ppl using these packages). Yes, this cost is big. But this is not related that `ttf-xtt-* packages will include fonts.scale, fonts.alias, tfm and other meta datas' or `proveide separate packages.' -- ISHIKAWA Mutsumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>