Hans de Goede (j.w.r.degoede@xxxxxx) said: > Basicly: yes > Because: > -adding a Requires: /usr/share/fonts/foo/bar.ttf line to my package is trivial ... and causes additional megabytes to be downloaded for every transaction. Note that actually addding these files to the repodata *breaks any dependency solver that tries to use it.* Which is why it can't really happen. > -games were designed with a certain look and feel, depending on getting that > exacy font, fontconfig is somewhat fuzzy with which font you'll get It is? You ask for liberationsans, you get liberationsans. > -maintaining patches against each new upstream release for dozens of packages > is not trivial, and that little snipped will have to be incorperated and > maintained seperately for each of those dozens of apps It's like porting to PAM or NSS instead of reading /etc/passwd by hand. You want to integrate with the system, *you use the system libraries*. It's not about what's easiest for the maintainer. > -you so far have failed to provide the same snippet for java and pascal > (real world examples), python (likely will be needed too) and > perl (so far an academical argument) Not to be blunt, but if you're packaging Pascal code, you've created your own problem. :) Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
