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Bug#490205: please add ttf-liberation to the desktop task



On Friday 11 July 2008 15:22, Joey Hess wrote:
> Shachar Or wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 July 2008 22:07, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> > > > please add the ttf-liberation font package to the desktop task. I
> > > > believe that nearly everybody out there installing a desktop system
> > > > would like to have the free variants of the three infamous MS fonts
> > > > installed by default.
> > >
> > > ttf-liberation is already a dependency of openoffice.org, which is
> > > already in the desktop task.
> > >
> > > So there's no need to add it to the task directly. As long as package
> > > that use it depend on it. I do wonder why no web browsers currently
> > > depend on it..
> >
> > Is this policy or reason? Sounds strange...
>
> What's strange about it? I don't want to have to manually track every
> dependency that every package in a task needs to work well.

If it is appropriate that some package will be part of a task, it seems right 
to make it part of the task and not via another package's dependency upon it. 
Because if that other package stops being dependant upon it or is excluded 
from the task, package 'foo' should still be part of the task.

-- 
Shachar Or | שחר אור
http://ox.freeallweb.org/




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