Le dimanche 13 avril 2008 à 20:42 +0100, Richard Hughes a écrit : > On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 21:09 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Le dimanche 13 avril 2008 à 19:39 +0100, Richard Hughes a écrit : > > > On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 14:17 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > > > > > — help users install the right fonts on their system: > > > > — when a user encounters some script (in its browser, office > > > > suite, etc) the system can not render due to lack of fonts the > > > > application used could propose installing the needed font packages > > > > (probably needs work with Behdad to write an helper that auto-adds the > > > > needed Provides to font packages at build time) > > > > > > Sure, we can install them trivially. See > > > http://hughsient.livejournal.com/55964.html > > > > It's not trivial because current packages do not have the necessary > > metadata. And the install-fonts-by-style is yet another thing. But since > > this metadata would be pretty useless for humans and only makes sense in > > a packagekit-like context, you have a chicken and egg problem. > > Well, yes and no. Bastien wrote a script to auto-add the codec metadata > as provides in the spec file, so now we can install the right codec by > querying the provides. Can we not do the same thing with font-styles? > It's three lines of code to install a package from a provides using > gnome-packagekit. That's what I was proposing. But I suspect a good auto-provider would be non-trivial, which is why having Behdad in the boat would be good. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot
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