Packagekit font autoinstall [was Re: Some packagekit feedback]

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le dimanche 13 avril 2008 à 20:42 +0100, Richard Hughes a écrit :
> On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 21:09 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Le dimanche 13 avril 2008 à 19:39 +0100, Richard Hughes a écrit :
> > > On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 14:17 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: 
> > 
> > > > — help users install the right fonts on their system:
> > > >   — when a user encounters some script (in its browser, office
> > > > suite, etc) the system can not render due to lack of fonts the
> > > > application used could propose installing the needed font packages
> > > > (probably needs work with Behdad to write an helper that auto-adds the
> > > > needed Provides to font packages at build time)
> > > 
> > > Sure, we can install them trivially. See
> > > http://hughsient.livejournal.com/55964.html
> > 
> > It's not trivial because current packages do not have the necessary
> > metadata. And the install-fonts-by-style is yet another thing. But since
> > this metadata would be pretty useless for humans and only makes sense in
> > a packagekit-like context, you have a chicken and egg problem.
> 
> Well, yes and no. Bastien wrote a script to auto-add the codec metadata
> as provides in the spec file, so now we can install the right codec by
> querying the provides. Can we not do the same thing with font-styles?
> It's three lines of code to install a package from a provides using
> gnome-packagekit.

That's what I was proposing. But I suspect a good auto-provider would be
non-trivial, which is why having Behdad in the boat would be good.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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