Am Die, 23. Okt 2001, 11:50:40 +0100 schrieb Nick Phillips: [...] > And the reason it only Suggests: them rather than anything stronger seems > to be the possibility that users will want to save the space and use a font > server. > > Fair enough, but from the angle I was coming from there was no indication > that I should do that. I explicitly requested the 75 & 100dpi packages but > forgot about -base. A user less familiar with Debian and X would probably > not have been very likely to figure out what the problem was. Not very > quickly, at any rate. > > IMHO the fact that you don't really really really require xfonts-base in > order to have a working system is not sufficient to justify the decision > not to depend on it. There are so many situations in which it will be > required, even for someone who usually uses a font server, and the additional > size when compared to the overall size of an X setup is so small as to justify > a dependency. > > So, just a suggestion. Maybe a xfonts-dummy package or something like this would make things clearer. By installing it, you declare to the package system and other packages, that you have other sources for fonts than just installed packages. I remeber that something similar existed once for Motif, people would install that package when they had the at that time nonfree Motif installed locally, so package dependencies were satisfied. Of cource, packages wich need fonts directly shouldn't be satisfied by this package. Jö. -- Software is like sex; it's better when it's free. -- Linus Torvalds
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