Hi all,
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 10:27:22PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 04:59:52PM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote:
> > The new redhat beta, limbo, uses xft and a package called
> > xfree86-truetype-fonts for displaying schweet looking fonts.
> >
> > These packages are not included in the 4.2.0 series of debs. Do they
> > just have different names? Is there some reason we don't include them?
>
> Well, why don't you tell us what files are in those packages, and maybe
> we can tell you if they come from the XFree86 source package or not?
According to www.rpmfind.net, Red Hat's XFree86-truetype-fonts package
contains:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/encodings.dir
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/fonts.alias
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/fonts.dir
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/fonts.scale
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luximb.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luximbi.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luximr.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luximri.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luxirb.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luxirbi.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luxirr.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luxirri.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luxisb.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luxisbi.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luxisr.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luxisri.ttf
> * The name of a Red Hat package is not particularly meaningful.
> * As far as I've been able to tell I'm shipping just about everything
> new that there is to ship.
> * Do you read debian-devel, debian-legal, or Debian Weekly News? You
> might interested to learn that most "schweet" TrueType fonts are
> non-free. Red Hat cares a lot less about licensing than Debian does.
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200208/msg00080.html
i.e. XFree86-truetype-fonts in Red Hat corresponds to the
xfonts-scalable-nonfree package in Debian. :-)
Cheers,
Anthony
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