file dependencies and packages and [blocker] bugs

[Bill Nottingham]

Kevin Kofler (kevin.kofler at chello.at) said: 
> Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede <at> hhs.nl> writes:
> > Maybe some more backgroundinfo on these apps:
> > 1) They originally both ship with copies of Arial (!= free) in there tarbals,
> > which get installed into the apps own data dir under /usr/share/app.
> > 2) I've ripped these out of the src-tarbal (and the resulting package) and 
> > replaced them with symlinks to the same style fonts from vera / dejavu.
> 
> If those were originally using Arial, wouldn't Liberation Sans be a better 
> replacement now that it's available? (Rationale: It has compatible metrics.)

So, maybe I'm insane, but if all you want is a sans bold, etc. font - that
can't be more than about 20 lines of fontconfig code to look for a match
for the 'sans' pattern and get a filename. That way:

- you don't have to hardcode any files
- you don't have to hardcode any requirements

Bill