Re: completely hosed OpenOffice 1.0.1
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Daniel Martin <martin@snowplow.org> writes:
>
> > Here's how to fix it:
> > Remove /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType and everything in it.
>
> If this is considered to be the way this should be fixed, would you
> please file a bug and have the responsible package do that? And if not...
Why? There already exist bugs filed against msttcorefonts that deal with
this issue; specifically, Bug#162265 suggests an equivalent (and possibly
better) way to accomplish the same thing. I don't see how filing yet
another important bug with the maintainer will encourage them to fix
things any sooner.
> > (Openoffice is one of the worst with dealing with this problem)
>
> openoffice should be fixed to be not so fussy.
Well, yes, though the particular brokenness that msttcorefonts causes is
quite nasty - fonts.dir files aren't supposed to lie.
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