retitle 197155 xbase-clients: want postinst to run xftcache in all font directories
severity 197155 wishlist
tag 197155 + moreinfo
thanks

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 06:33:47PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> xbase-clients.postinst should invoke xftcache in font directories.

Why?  xbase-clients doesn't ship any fonts.

> The Type1 packages doesn't depend on xbase-clients and xftcache should
> be invoked in cases when xbase-clients is installed after all font
> packages.

xbase-clients neither knows what place in the installation sequence it
has relative to font packages, nor can it affect that place.

> I am not sure but it seams that xutils is a better place for xftcache.
> There are more library dependencies of xftcache though.

That's why xftcache is in xbase-clients.

xutils is for programs the X Window System provides that do not depend
on any of the X Window System's libraries (except where they merit a
package of their own).

xbase-clients is for programs the X Window System provides that *do*
depend on any of the X Window System's libraries (except where they
merit a package of their own).

I am probably not going to act on this report unless you can make a more
persuasive case.  Such a case would probably involve changes to the
Debian Policy Manual.

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