Ryan Hill wrote:
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:03:53 -0500
Jeremy Olexa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm thinking that a virtual/fonts package would be a good addition to
the tree. We have hit this issue in Gentoo Prefix where any font
package would satisfy a dependency. I also have an open bug where a
package depends on corefonts but the reporter has stated that another
fonts package will work. Frankly, I would rather *not* depend on the
proprietary M$ fonts, myself. So my proposal would be to make every
fonts package satisfy some virtual and then other packages can depend
on that virtual to satisfy the need for *some* fonts. I just don't
have a game plan for the best way to do it.
Do you people agree that this could be useful?
Does anyone have a suggestion for the best way to get it done?
Is it something like currently deps on corefonts but liberation-fonts
works? I think there was a bug open somewhere for that at some point.
I could see a virtual on a some agreed upon choice of core fonts, but
to have every font package in it...
Yes, that is my open bug that I have at the moment. bug #215661. But it
is not the first time I have come across this. Maybe every font package
satisfying a virtual is silly, I don't know. Maybe there are only a
couple of package which can be interchanged, is it known which ones? If
that was the case, then it is trivial to do || ( corefonts
liberation-fonts ) and the case is closed here.
There are also lot of packages that depend on ttf-bitstream-vera that
might work just as easily with dejavu.
I have heard this as well.
