On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 20:03 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > Okay, these are mine (which I already knew without looking at the report, as I > very deliberately added the filedeps): > > /usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf > xblast-0:2.10.4-5.fc9.i386 > chess-0:1.0-12.fc9.i386 > > /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf > sdljava-demo-0:0.9.1-9.fc9.i386 > > /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf > sdljava-demo-0:0.9.1-9.fc9.i386 > > /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf > sdljava-demo-0:0.9.1-9.fc9.i386 > > /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf > sdljava-demo-0:0.9.1-9.fc9.i386 > > > The problem with these packages is that the application in question (== > game-ish app, using its own fontrending) opens these fonts by filename. not > true any known font configuration mechanism. > > Combine this with the fact that fonts change both location and name regulary, > and a simple dep on the font providing package wont't do. With these (not > pretty) file deps I actually get broken deps reports send to me when this > happens. Don't believe me? This is from the sdljava-demo changelog: Define 'regularly' for the fonts changing locations? Also - If they are changing so often why don't we talk to the font maintainers and get that to stop moving around? > On the postive site, very few people have either of these installed, so I guess > the best solution here is to notfix. But I'm open for other ways of catching > filename changes in another package without using file deps. It makes things like repoclosure take longer to run b/c it has to go get the filelists to resolve it all out. Don't you think we should be able to do something to make this situation better or even rarer? -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
