On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:07:32AM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
is there a reason why ghostscript ships its own fonts in /usr/share/ghostscript/9.01/Resource/Font in the libgs9-common package but also depends on the gsfonts package? The latter contains modified variants of the exact same fonts with added glyphs under different file names. Is it really necessary to have both font sets installed?
There are multiple reasons, e.g. historical packaging complications, historical packaging cleanup complications, and the fact that upstream treat external codebases as local sources, the latter causing additional burden of our side of analysing and ripping apart the various parts again.
I agree, however, with the message between the lines of your question: There is no _sensible_ reason :-)
So thanks for pointing this out! It is indeed a bug. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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