[dropping -release from Cc] On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 15:11:44 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ttf-opensymbol comes out of openoffice.org itself (easily checkable) and > > is needed for basic operation. You won't get any bullet in OOos lists > > without it. > > Even if you're running an X font server on a different host that is > providing that font? Does that not work? (I haven't tried to use one > since TTF fonts became possible, and don't know if it even works with > TTF.) > > > You don't really want that as a Recommends, do you? > > The reason for the Policy requirement for Recommends is to enable font > servers and not require all the fonts be installed locally when you're > running a font server. > > It's possible that font servers are quaint bit of computer history that no > one cares about any more, though, in which case Policy should change. > That section of policy is about "fonts for the X Window System", which a footnote defines as fonts "accessed via X protocol requests" (a.k.a core fonts, or server-side fonts). Most apps nowadays use client-side fonts (through Xft), not server-side fonts. So policy 11.8.5 only talks about the xfonts-* packages, not the ttf-* ones, at least as I understand it. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
