Bug#588719: openoffice.org: metapackage should not depend on fonts - gentium is broken
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:43:02AM -0700, Mark Hedges wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> >
> > ttf-sil-gentium-basic is needed to make use of OOOs
> > graphite feature, for example.
>
> If it is required for some feature, then shouldn't it be
> required by the packages that use that feature, rather than
> by the metapackage?
That won't help anything, in fact it would make this worse - the package
requring this would then be -core.
Which would force it to you even when you don't install the metapackage.
Besides that, for only one feature you can simply install it.
> If the font is required only by the metapackage, and I can
> install the package that requires the font without
> installing the font, isn't that a broken dependency?
When the feature is a essential one, yes.
Again, the point of the metapackage is to provide a full OOo install.
Nothing more and nothing less. And OOo normally *includes* the gentium
font (we of couse don't and just depend on it in the metapackage)
Grüße/Regards,
René
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