On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 23:24 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote: > On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 22:37 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote: > > That assumes that the end user knows what a package is and what it does. > > Say I had no clue that mathml-fonts were needed to properly view the > > blog of my Physics professor. I might not even know what mathml is. It > > just works because something else pulled them in as a dependency. > > Grasping at straws, eh? If firefox supports mathml and needs > mathml-fonts to display properly, then perhaps firefox should be > depending on mathml-fonts. Or at least putting up some kind of message > like "This page cannot be displayed properly, you need mathml-fonts". Firefox does notify the user that they are missing fonts. It then directs them to instructions (if I remember) that are a sub-optimal way of installing them on a system that already has the packaged. The point is that there will be software users have need for that they don't necessarily know they have a need for. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
