Re: Please provide msfontextract package
On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 13:55, Kevin B.Hendricks wrote:
> Hi,
>
> cabextract is not LGPL and can't be part of OOo so we used libmspack
> which is LGPL to create msfontextract.
>
> But if you install msttcorefonts at the core os level then you will not
> ever need msfontextract since OOo will automatically pick up the system
> truetype fonts.
I wonder if FontOOo could be useful at all on Debian, as most the
downloadable fonts are already available as packages.
Maybe it could try to detect if the fonts are already on the system, and
only install those which don't.
> Perhaps I could ask Laurent to check if msfontextract exists and if not
> simply not show the ms tt fonts as a download possibility.
>
> That way you won't need msfontextract at all on a system where you know
> msttcorefonts have already been installed.
>
> Kevin
>
> On Apr 14, 2004, at 5:23 AM, Chris Halls wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 11:00, Jerome Warnier wrote:
> >> Please provide msfontextract from Kevin Hendrickx in the packages or
> >> in
> >> a separate package.
> >
> > We already have cabextract in Debian (used my msttcorefonts), and
> > Debian
> > suffers enough already many packages to do the same thing.
> >
> > Maybe you can provide a patch to use cabextract instead?
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
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