On Tue, Oct 16, 2007, Frank Küster wrote: > Please don't do it that way. Both because it's a bad idea and because > we intend to file bugs about this soon (read: as soon as one among the > TeX team has some free time, which might well be next year). > > It's a bad idea because the texlive metapackage is a package targetted > at users who write documents, not at build-deps. It's a package which is > supposed to pull in what a novice/standard/whatever TeX user probably > wants. But we're not yet there, so we might still have to make some > changes: Add this package, drop that other one. > > Consequently, at least at the moment, the texlive metapackage is a > moving target with respect to "I need this particular font". You are > risking that your package FTBFS once we find out that most people won't > need that font package (or should not use it because it's obsolete). > Better check which individual package is needed.
Okay, you make perfect sense. Can you suggest a strategy that lets me know the required font? Of course I can test packages one after the other but I'd like to understand what's going on if possible. Cheers, -- Sam.
