Re: splitting fonts in two packages

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de> wrote:

> Actually I like the 'one package approach' as it is done by lmodern (or
> mk-tex-fontpack), and this was no problem with X11R6, since the
> dependencies of xutils were negligible, similar to tex-common. This has
> changed with X11R7, though I haven't checked how large the dependencies
> of xfonts-utils actually are. 

Also, it should be noted that lmodern being in one package is (well,
was) a *feature*. The first upload I made had {lmodern,lmodern-x11} and
was rejected by the ftp-masters (because the split wasn't very useful,
and they want to avoid adding too much cruft to the Packages file.

-- 
Florent