Re: task-anti-aliasing

[Stefan Schwandter <sm-s@gmx.at>]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 08:49:48PM -0600, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
> 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. :)

Ok, I use dselect, so I didn't think of that :-)
 
> 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.  

Of course. The only thing that speaks against xfs-xtt that you have one
piece of software more to configure :-).  

I thought a "suggest" would have been sufficient (but only for
dselect-users, as you pointed out).

regards, Stefan