On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 04:35:01PM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote:
> Ben suggested that I make
> a package for each foundry, and then a virtual package that includes
> all of them. If Dustin agrees to gpl the rest of his fonts, I'll just
> make a ttf-cheapskate package.
Meta package. A virtual package is something quite different. It is not a
package itself, but rather a package name, named in the "Provides:" control
field, thus emacs21 and emacs20 both have "Provides" of the virutal package
"emacsen". A meta package, on the other hand, is a real package that has
nothing but control information in it, usually "Depends:" so when you
install the meta package it causes a group of other packages to be
installed.
If I gave the impression that the grouping should be by foundry, that is not
what I meant. I think I mentioned that the foundry may be present in the
name of each actual font package, but that is all. I imagined a good
grouping would be by function, i.e. "fonts suitable for foo". The grouping
I suggested was ttf-latin for a nice collection of fonts supporting latin
characters.
Ben
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