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Bug#600339: please remove getnonfreefonts



On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:10:01 +0100
Thomas Weber <tweber@debian.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 03:10:57PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> > Karl Goetz <karl@kgoetz.id.au> wrote:
> > 
> > > Package: texlive-base-bin
> > > Version: all
> > > User: karl@kgoetz.id.au
> > > Usertags: libreplanet
> > >
> > >
> > > I thought there was a bug on this, but i can't find it.
> > > The getnonfreefonts is only used for downloading proprietary
> > > software, so it should probably go in contrib rather then main.
> > 
> > If it were in a separate package, or at least a major part of the
> > package it is in, I'd agree with you.  But IMO it doesn't make
> > sense to split off a contrib package from texlive-base-bin for one
> > small script. And AFAIR, this is also consense in the project -
> > please correct me if I'm wrong.

I'm not aware of other package in main with similar downloading
scripts, perhaps I've missed something myself though.

> I'm closing this bug. The script itself is free software and creating
> a new package (or removing the script) is pretty much pointless.

While I won't try and change the but status, could I ask why you think
removing the script is pointless?
thanks,
kk


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