Quoting rba777@protonmail.ch (2020-04-08 22:39:40) > Hi all, by accident I was looking for the package name > fonts-font-awesome which I did not remember at the time. So I made a > query with apt-file to look for the package that would allow me to get > fontawesome-webfont.ttf. I was somewhat surprised to see there was > indeed a lot of them, and I mean *a lot* : > > $ apt-file search fontawesome-webfont.ttf |cut -f1 -d: |sort |uniq |wc -l > > 313 > > if my analysis is correct that means we currently have 312 (dismissing > fonts-font-awesome, which is the rightful «owner» of the file) > packages that choose to embed the font instead of using a dependency. > Obviously there is little chance that someone would need all of the > 312 packages at the same point in time but is this situation somehow > to be expected or does something should be done to fix it ? In which > case I would be OK contacting the different maintainers but I've got > no official Debian position right now... You need no official title or position to help file bugreports. Please file a bugreport, that's better actionable than sharing information loosely on a mailinglist _without_ tying it to a bugreport. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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