Re: task-anti-aliasing
I figured that "task" package would consist soley of the documention that it
installs into /usr/share/doc. So someone installing task-anti-aliasing would
get a nice large "LOOK IN /USR/SHARE/DOC" and the really nice, step-by-step
howtos and whatnot that you included. Then, if they said that they installed
the package and it didn't make things automatically look nicer, you could
flame them to hell and gone for being dumb :-) At least, that was *my* take.
Having it install something else (xfs-xtt in this case) just makes it look
like it *is* an, apt-get install and walk-away sorta routine.
Just my insignificant pocket change,
D.A.Bishop
On Sunday 15 April 2001 20:49, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 03:21:54PM +0200, Stefan Schwandter wrote:
> > Why does the package have to depend on a font server, although XF 4.x
> > supports TT fonts natively ?
>
> cuz I just did it that way...I guess I could make everything a suggest
> since nothing is truely needed except xlibs...then when someone does a
> apt-get install task-anti-aliasing it won't install anything. :)
>
> no for real...yes X does support TTF...however it does not provide certain
> support that, for example, xfs-xtt does.
>
> "XFree86 4.0's font server can handle TrueType too, but it
> can not handle TTCap. By using TTCap description, support for font
> transformations, such as slanting, adjusting glyph width, pseudo-bolding,
> etc."
>
> Based on this I made a decision to depend on it. you can alwasy choose not
> to install it.
>
> Ivan
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