Re: Bug#14600: GIMP depends on fonts, but fonts don't have to be in a package..
On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 12:06:03PM -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> How can I provide for this in the GIMP package? If I remove the
> dependancy on xfnt75 and xfnt100, I'll get bug reports that GIMP
> crashes without informative information
You'll get them anyway.
Depending on fonts being installed on one machine won't stop people
displaying the program on another---it could be a windows machine with a
broken X server and a ridiculously incomplete set of fonts.
> What's the solution here?
Make the error message more informative. There really isn't anything else
you can do.
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