On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 12:21:36PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Ben Armstrong wrote: > > 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. > > I don't understand the reasoning behind bloating debian with a buch of > little packages that each include one font file. Can you explain? >
Ben Armstrong said the following in the thread above called "Linux Fonts": "I question the name free-ttfonts. The convention seems to be: ttf[-foundryname]-fontorfamilyname" when I proposed the free-ttffonts package. So, I was planning on making a package for each source of fonts. He also suggested the use of a meta package. > Note the existing freefont and sharefont packages, which were compiled > by a Debian developer. Why should truetype fonts be packaged any > differently? > I don't think they should. My original intent was to make a free-ttffont package, and I'd rather do that. I guess since you're a dd and you were in the front row at debconf, that gives you a little seniority over Ben. ;) Seriously, I'd like to reach a consensus about this. Any more objections to a freettffonts package? I have received a few responses from font developers, so there will be a number of sources of ttf fonts. thanks michael -- michael cardenas | lead software engineer | lindows.com | hyperpoem.net "Being is what it is." - Jean-Paul Sartre
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