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Re: Bug#156852: ITP: ttf-dustismo -- general purpose gpl'ed truetype sans serif font



Ben Armstrong wrote:
> Meta package.  A virtual package is something quite different.  It is not a
> package itself, but rather a package name, named in the "Provides:" control
> field, thus emacs21 and emacs20 both have "Provides" of the virutal package
> "emacsen".  A meta package, on the other hand, is a real package that has
> nothing but control information in it, usually "Depends:" so when you
> install the meta package it causes a group of other packages to be
> installed.
> 
> If I gave the impression that the grouping should be by foundry, that is not
> what I meant.  I think I mentioned that the foundry may be present in the
> name of each actual font package, but that is all.  I imagined a good
> grouping would be by function, i.e. "fonts suitable for foo".  The grouping
> I suggested was ttf-latin for a nice collection of fonts supporting latin
> characters.

I don't understand the reasoning behind bloating debian with a buch of
little packages that each include one font file. Can you explain? 

Note the existing freefont and sharefont packages, which were compiled
by a Debian developer. Why should truetype fonts be packaged any
differently?

-- 
see shy jo



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