On Thu, 24 May 2001 at 22:59:42 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit > > I haven't decided yet how this is going to interact with my new > > packaging (see bug #53225). The programs in groff-base will be compiled > > with Japanese support, but since the Japanese fonts etc. are very large > > I doubt they'll go in the base system package. Depending on what > > fraction of the groff package they turn out to be, they'll either go in > > groff or in a separate groff-ja plug-in package. > > Whatever it is, if someone remotely logs in via terminal, and tries to > view a Japanese-language manpage, the machine will not > need any Japanese font. The client would need one, but > the server just dumps series of characters. > > So Japanese support doesn't directly mean it will be big.
I'm thinking here of the "fonts" used by groff used to decide what to output to the viewing device (e.g. /usr/share/groff/font/devnippon/*) rather than display fonts. The groff fonts are needed on the machine where the document is being formatted. The Japanese ones come to over 2Mb, hence my concern about groff-base in the base system, but indeed the size of the groff package isn't so important so they can probably go there. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
