On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 06:58:23AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Khaled Hosny (khaledhosny@eglug.org): > > > It does not make much sense and will be a compatibility nightmare; > > people upgrading their fonts and suddenly all old documents using "Linux > > Libertine" are broken (in cases of e.g. TeX it means not being able to > > process the document at all), and no fontconfig aliases is not a > > solution since not every system is using it. Renaming such widely used > > font at this very late stage is very bad idea no matter how good the > > reasons. > > I don't know how to say this in a different way: the point is not > renaming the internal font name. It is only renaming the > *package*. The thing people install with "apt-get install fonts-whatever". I thought some other emails in this thread were actually suggesting internal font name change and this what I was responding to. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Egyptian Arab
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