[Fedora-packaging] requiring a (non-specific) font?

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Sat Sep 29 03:06:20 UTC 2012


On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 04:37:33PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > I could require some specific font, but that seems wrong. (Particularly
> > since if a "better" match for latin or common happen to be installed,
> > whatever I said is a requirement will actually be irrelevant.)
> > Orrr, should I just not worry about this case?
> Generally, if you want to run graphical apps, install the @fonts group -
> this gives you the preferred default fonts for all of the languages we
> support.

So from a packaging point of view, don't worry that the package plus all of
its dependencies installed doesn't really function?


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