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Summary: need fonts-{assamese,marathi,nepali,urdu} metapackages
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=351571
petersen@xxxxxxxxxx changed:
What |Removed |Added
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OtherBugsDependingO|235705 |
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Status|NEW |CLOSED
Resolution| |WONTFIX
------- Additional Comments From petersen@xxxxxxxxxx 2007-10-29 22:39 EST -------
(In reply to comment #8)
> > Basically the current problem is that language groups list their fonts
> > requirements and some languages require the same fonts. Then if one
> > of the language groups is uninstalled the shared font with the other
> > language will get removed.
>
> This is not a common case - most often users install the language groups sets
> they need and never remove them
Maybe, but it is nevertheless an intrinsic limitation of current
package system and something should be done about it IMHO since it
is a general problem for packages listed in more than one group.
> Even if metapackages stay you'll have to document fonts in comps properly
> because defaults are only defaults, users are allowed to make other choices,
> and if you don't have fine-grained package lists in
> comps they can't do them in our GUI tools.
I have replaced most of the metapackages in comps-f9 with
the actual fonts lists.
> Metapackages are quick hacks that can help doing short-term workarounds, they
> have lots of drawbacks and are an absolute pain to get rid of later. I though
> that was well understood but since it's not the case I'll ask FPC to make
> official guidelines on their use.
I don't encourage the widespread use of metapackages,
but in certain limited circumstances they can be useful I believe.
Having some guidelines about that written down would be nice.
Anyway let's work towards dropping the fonts metapackages soon then.
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