Re: Please, not more font packages

To: Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Please, not more font packages
From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 09:36:24 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 87fz63zrlz.fsf@alhambra.bioz.unibas.ch>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20040830192921.GB6918@freenet.de> (Michelle Konzack's message of "Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:29:21 +0200")
References: <[🔎] ec7239528bc809d69d1bd8019a2f0104@ibook.linuks.mine.nu> <[🔎] 20040829153014.GA3933@glorybox.kl2.local> <[🔎] 20040830192921.GB6918@freenet.de>

Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de> wrote:

> But in the next month I will make all fonts in groups to Debian-
> Packages and they will be availlable from my apt repository.
>
> No wory about it...  I will not flood Debian with 160 xfonts-*
> Packages.

Wouldn't it be possible to write an installer package that simply takes
the fonts in a directory you point it to, installs them in appropriate
places in /usr/local and registers them to the different font systems?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie

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Follow-Ups:
- Re: Please, not more font packages
  - From: Paul.Hampson@anu.edu.au (Paul Hampson)

References:
- ITP: ttf-angular -- Wipeout 3 Font
  - From: Gürkan Sengün <gurkan@linuks.mine.nu>
- Please, not more font packages (was Re: ITP: ttf-angular -- Wipeout 3 Font)
  - From: Kai Weber <kai.weber@glorybox.de>
- Re: Please, not more font packages (was Re: ITP: ttf-angular -- Wipeout 3 Font)
  - From: Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de>

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