Re: Considering packaging: Microsoft Web Font pack

[servis@purdue.edu]

*- Raul Miller wrote about "Re: Considering packaging: Microsoft Web Font pack"
> John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> wrote:
>> When you download a .zip, it's not transferred unchanged.  There are TCP/IP
>> headers added to each packet.  The file transfer protocol (FTP, HTTP, etc)
>> adds stuff to it.  .deb simply adds stuff as well.  How's that different?
> 
> That's different because it's on a different layer.  There is no file
> at that layer.
> 
> More generally, I think this falls in the category of "if the author
> doesn't want us to distribute it, or if we don't feel it's right for us
> to distribute it, we don't".
> 

>From an outsiders point of view why not just make a wrapper package
like the old netscape or rvplayer ones.  Have the user download the
file before hand and then let the package extract and install it.  

-- 
Brian 
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