Identifying remaining core font users

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Fri Nov 13 08:24:06 UTC 2009


Le jeudi 12 novembre 2009 à 23:08 +0100, Patrice Dumas a écrit :
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 01:11:03PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > encoding standards change. Also, few users means we do not install core
> > font packages by default anymore, so packagers that depend on them but
> > forgot to mark the deps in their packages will deliver broken packages
> > to users.
> 
> On that matter, what is the way to know which packagee is necessary
> for fonts like
> *-courier-medium-r-normal-*-120-*
> *-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-120-*
> 
> Is there an easy way to know in which package they are? 

I don't think you can short of uncompressing each font package and
reading the indexes (ignoring built-ins). As I wrote no one has been
willing to expend energy on the core fonts backend for a long, long
time.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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