On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 01:45:28AM -0500, Sam TH wrote: > On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 12:46:04AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > fonts shipped, such as their license information). If one > > or more of the fonts so packaged are necessary for proper > > operation of the package with which they are associated the > > font package may be Recommended; if the fonts merely > > provide an enhancement, a Suggests relationship may be > > used. Packages must not Depend on font packages. > > Why should packages that require a particular font package for > operation (and indeed normally require that package to be installed on > the local system AND the remote system) not depend on their font > packages? > > I ask since AbiWord is exactly one such package.
Because, as indicated elsewhere in the proposal, the fonts may be served by a font server, and thus need not be installed locally. A Recommends: font-package is probably appropriate. -- - mdz
