On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 08:44:52PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: > Does anyone understand why gsfonts-x11 seems to be so deeply > entrenched in the system after it is installed? I tried to > apt-get remove it and I get... > > apt-get remove gsfonts-x11 > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > bonobo bonobo-conf eog evolution galeon-nautilus gedit ghex gnome-gv > gnome-spell gnome-utils gnumeric gnumeric-python gsfonts-x11 gtkhtml j2re1.3 > j2sdk1.3-demo libbonobo-conf-dev libbonobo-dev libcamel0 libgal-dev > libgnomeprint-bin libgnomeprint-data libgnomeprint-dev libgnomeprint15 > libgtkhtml-data libgtkhtml-dev libgtkhtml20 libguilegnome-dev libguilegnome0 > libguppi16 libnautilus-dev nautilus nautilus-extra nautilus-suggested > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 34 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > > I don't see why something like gsfonts-x11 should be tethered to all > of these packages in debian sid. Most distressing. There had better be a good reason for the above, or this looks like many screeching violations of Policy 12.8.5.1: Fonts of any type supported by the X Window System must be be in a separate binary package from any executables, libraries, or documentation (except that specific to the 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.[52] -- G. Branden Robinson | I must despise the world which does Debian GNU/Linux | not know that music is a higher branden@debian.org | revelation than all wisdom and http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | philosophy. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
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