fixed font not required by xserver-xfree86 package

[Frank Murphy <fjm_maillists@yahoo.com>]

I was installing a sarge system to see if a bug was fixed, and I noticed that 
the xfonts-base package is not required by xserver-xfree86. I noticed because 
the Xserver wouldn't start because I had not fixed font installed. After 
installing xfonts-base, I had no problems.

Is there a reason that xfonts-base isn't required? I notice that it has a lot 
of different sized fixed fonts, and only one is configured as "fixed". I 
imagine that any font could be aliased as "fixed". Perhaps there should be a 
xfonts-fixed virtual package so that some systems could replace the bigger 
xfonts-base package with their own, smaller set of fixed fonts.

Or is there another reason for xserver-xfree86 only recommending xfonts-base?

Frank