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Bug#383316: Repackaging tarball



On Tue May 01 13:20, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
> 
> --- Matthew Johnson <matt@matthew.ath.cx> escribió:
> 
> > On Tue May 01 12:50, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
> 
> > well, we're shipping a load of png files as it is, I'm not sure that
> > amanith instead is much of a lose. I also don't buy 'less dependencies'
> > as a reason---users don't have to care about that, apt does it all for
> > them. I'm also not sure the users want or need the option, svg+amanith
> > is almost always better than png; when it isn't, they probably don't
> > want to be playing FoF on that machine, it's so under powered. I can't
> > imagine the overhead of amanith is all that noticeable.
> 
> I'd like to have the option of not using amanith for myself at least :)

fair enough then (-:

> Yup I guess... anyway there's something inside me that keeps telling me that
> it would be better to do the best, not the easier. This is Debian, it's not
> just a matter of having it done, but having it done in the best way we can.
> I'd rather prefer to have the if (amanith) svg else png code instead, I guess.
> Am I too perfectionist?

no, sure, I just wasn't sure there was any point (or demand). I was
expecting either "never amanith, use pngs if there" or "always amanith"
depending whether it was in Debian, so the hack case doesn't arise. If
we actually want to offer the choice, then fine.

Matt
 

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