On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 13:52 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > 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. hyperbole. My view on this: the *.ttf deps un-hid a flaw in current yum transaction handling. > Note that actually addding these files to the repodata *breaks any dependency > solver that tries to use it. I don't see this. If this breaks depsolvers, these depsolvers are broken. > * 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. It's about what the packages want, not about you want to packages to use. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
