On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:03:53PM -0500, Jeremy Olexa wrote: > I'm thinking that a virtual/fonts package would be a good addition to the > tree. We have hit this issue in Gentoo Prefix where any font package would > satisfy a dependency. I also have an open bug where a package depends on > corefonts but the reporter has stated that another fonts package will work. > Frankly, I would rather *not* depend on the proprietary M$ fonts, myself. > So my proposal would be to make every fonts package satisfy some virtual > and then other packages can depend on that virtual to satisfy the need for > *some* fonts. I just don't have a game plan for the best way to do it. Is a single virtual sufficient? Some years ago I pondered having virtuals for some of the combinations of fonts: - format: truetype, T1, pcf, bdf - serif, sans serif - monospace, variable width
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