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Re: [ITP] font-bitstream-vera-ttf 1.10]


Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
> Jon TURNEY wrote:
>> The Bitstream Vera TTF font family has gone AWOL in the upgrade to X.Org R7.4
>> (it was previously contained in the xorg-x11-fscl package)
> 
> Which makes me wonder if there are other such cases...

I've tried to audit for anything else missing and nothing turned up in a quick
check.

>> If possible, the stub xorg-x11-fscl package should be amended to pull this
>> package in on upgrade.
> 
> I disagree.  In order not to defeat the purpose of modularization, the
> stubs only select a bare minimum upgrade path (if anything) instead of
> everything the old package once contained.  If you do otherwise, then
> xorg-x11-bin-dlls would have to select all 20+ libraries, xorg-x11-devel
> all the libdevel packages, etc., and I don't want to go that route.
> 
> OTOH, if a package explicitly requires a particular font (either in code
> or in the app-defaults), then it should be added as a dependency to that
> package.

'cd /etc/X11/app-defaults; grep -i Vera *' shows me that it is the default
font for rxvt & urxvt


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