On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 10:32:26PM -0500, Jon Bernard wrote: > I've packaged xfonts-knickers, the knickers pcf font created by > Tom Gilbert. Before I upload it I wanted to ask for some advise about > whether it is right to package a single font. > I noticed nexus is already there, so either that's the right thing to do > or it isn't, unfortunately I'm not qualified to say which. :) > One one hand, I can see how having seperate .debs would be nice, I could > apt-cache search knickers, then install it without maybe getting a bunch > of other fonts I wasn't necessarily looking for at that time. > On the other hand, a package for a single font is a waste of packaging > space. I doubt that creating individual packages for fonts can ever even begin to compare with the archive bloat of architecture-independent documentation that's duplicated for every arch in a variety of packages. As long as you give it an obvious name so that it can be grouped later if needed (xfonts-knickers would seem appropriate enough), I don't see a problem. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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