On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 08:49:48PM -0600, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > cuz I just did it that way...I guess I could make everything a suggest > since nothing is truely needed except xlibs...then when someone does a > apt-get install task-anti-aliasing it won't install anything. :)
Ok, I use dselect, so I didn't think of that :-) > no for real...yes X does support TTF...however it does not provide certain > support that, for example, xfs-xtt does. > > "XFree86 4.0's font server can handle TrueType too, but it > can not handle TTCap. By using TTCap description, support for font > transformations, such as slanting, adjusting glyph width, pseudo-bolding, > etc." > > Based on this I made a decision to depend on it. you can alwasy choose not > to install it. Of course. The only thing that speaks against xfs-xtt that you have one piece of software more to configure :-). I thought a "suggest" would have been sufficient (but only for dselect-users, as you pointed out). regards, Stefan
