Bug#225004: tetex-extra: Type1 fonts should be in a separate package
Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> schrieb:
> frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster) wrote:
>
>>> So, tetex-extra-type1fonts? And why not
>>> simply tetex-type1fonts or tetex-type1-fonts?
>>
>> Because:
>>
>> :~$ dlocate -L tetex-base | egrep 'afm|pfb' | grep [.] | wc -l
>> 566
>
> OK, I see.
>
>> These fonts are probably in tetex-base because the packages they come
>> with are there, too. What about taking them all out?
>
> I'm not sure that tetex-(base+bin) would "give you a working basic LaTeX
> system" (quote from the tetex-base long description) if you rip off all
> the fonts out of tetex-base. ;-)
I meant only the type1 font files, afm and pfb.
> But perhaps some people would appreciate having only a basic set of
> fonts in tetex-base and all the others in
> <substitute-package-name-here>. I have no strong opinion on this point...
Me neither, at the moment. I think there are some reasons to think about
a splitting of tetex-base. But this is for sure a post-sarge issue.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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