On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 22:09 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le jeudi 06 décembre 2007 à 16:23 -0500, Adam Jackson a écrit : > > The bdftruncate script provided by xorg-x11-font-utils drags in a > > dependency on perl. As far as I can tell, nothing in the distro uses > > it. The font-utils package is required by the various bitmap font > > packages, as it provides mkfontdir and mkfontscale. > > Actually, I wrote last week I'd like font packages not to depend on > anything, be it "just" xorg-x11-font-utils of full perl. Pre-generating > fonts-* at build time is easy. Having dynamic fontconfig-like generation > less so but is not overly difficult either. Both would reduce > considerably the problems bdftruncate creates. I agree that we should be able to package core fonts "up front" in the sense of not needing processing in scriptlets, but I am utterly unmotivated to make that happen. > Since you seem to care about it do you want to take over core fonts > packaging guidelines maintenance? (I want a pony!) Not even a little bit. I don't care about core fonts working in the slightest. My interest here is just on removing a rather bizarre arc in the dep graph. - ajax -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
