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Re: Euro symbol and XFree



On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 11:38:24AM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:

> I'm replacing my default fonts by transcoded ones now ... Went smoothly but
> 
> mrmime:~# apt-get remove xfonts-100dpi
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   lopster xfonts-100dpi
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 23  not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 6544kB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
> Abort.
> mrmime:~#
>   
> 'cause lopster depends on xfonts-75dpi | xfonts-100dpi
> 
> Shouldn't xfonts-100dpi-transcoded provide xfonts-100dpi ?

I would say it is a bug in lopster packaging. Package should
not depend on particular fonts (unless it uses them directly,
e.g. as yudit does), since you may well have the fonts installed
on some other computer and serve them via fontserver through
the network.


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