Re: Uploaded type1inst 0.6-1 (source all) to master
On Sun, Mar 15, 1998 at 01:23:19PM -0800, Jim Pick wrote:
>
> Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> writes:
>
> > Jim Pick writes:
> > > Source: type1inst
> > > Description:
> > > type1inst - Install Adobe Type 1 fonts into X11 and Ghostscript
> >
> > Ah. Though it was a missing feature, it's too bad that it seems we
> > now have 2 projects: dtm in experimental, and type1inst in unstable.
> >
> > It seems even less desirable to me, as, from its name, I guess
> > type1inst only handles type1 fonts, and dtm is aimed at all possible
> > font types.
>
> I wasn't aware that dtm even existed! I must have skipped the
> discussion/announcement.
>
> I'm relatively unaware of stuff in experimental, because there is no
> Packages file. Why do we have so much stuff in there? Stuff in
> experimental isn't really part of our release anyways.
I put it there because when I tested it on my system, it killed
all the .fonts and Fontmap files (X and gs without fonts until
reinstall...) Next version will go in 2.1 unstable.
> FWIW, type1inst is a useful utility for system administrators to
> manually install fonts, whereas dtm seems to be a fuller, more
> automated solution oriented towards package maintainers. So I don't
> think there is too much overlap, really.
dtm will include a coomand line program and a gui to do what
type1inst does. But at now dtm is in a very alpha stage, where
type1inst is fully useable. I think there is no overlap at now
and type1inst is the better short term solution.
Thank you for packaging it.
> Cheers,
>
> - Jim
>
>
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