On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 03:08:54AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 01:45:28AM -0500, Sam TH wrote:
>
> > On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 12:46:04AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> >
> > > fonts shipped, such as their license information). If one
> > > or more of the fonts so packaged are necessary for proper
> > > operation of the package with which they are associated the
> > > font package may be Recommended; if the fonts merely
> > > provide an enhancement, a Suggests relationship may be
> > > used. Packages must not Depend on font packages.
> >
> > Why should packages that require a particular font package for
> > operation (and indeed normally require that package to be installed on
> > the local system AND the remote system) not depend on their font
> > packages?
> >
> > I ask since AbiWord is exactly one such package.
>
> Because, as indicated elsewhere in the proposal, the fonts may be served by a
> font server, and thus need not be installed locally. A Recommends:
> font-package is probably appropriate.
>
Like I said, AbiWord requires the fonts to be installed locally. It
doesn't work otherwise.
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