On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > James Rayner schrieb: >> >> We've allowed it in the past when the package has been of >> significance. Like nvidia and fglrx before those were rewritten. > > And we've fixed them and they're not broken any more. > >> Though I have all the fonts in my own ~/.fonts, I'd prefer to keep the >> package in the repos. Installation was at 70% in pkgstats. > > Since when are we concerned by that? Our philosophy is to create the distro > in a clean way, not to do weird hacks just to satisfy our users. Our > userbase is very comfortable with the AUR and they have always installed > missing and problematic applications from there. ttf-ms-fonts is no > different, it is in the AUR (with a clean package, > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=5418). I see both sides here... I dunno what to do. On one hand, the package sucks. But on the other hand, we've always tried to keep useful things around, despite non-free status and the like. I think this package may be a "necessary evil"
