On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 13:52 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Hans de Goede (j.w.r.degoede(a)hhs.nl) said:
> Basicly: yes
> Because:
> -adding a Requires: /usr/share/fonts/foo/bar.ttf line to my package is trivial
... and causes additional megabytes to be downloaded for every transaction.
hyperbole. My view on this: the *.ttf deps un-hid a flaw in current yum
transaction handling.
Note that actually addding these files to the repodata *breaks any
dependency
solver that tries to use it.
I don't see this. If this breaks depsolvers, these
depsolvers are
broken.
* Which is why it can't really happen.
?!?
> -games were designed with a certain look and feel, depending on
getting that
> exacy font, fontconfig is somewhat fuzzy with which font you'll get
It is? You ask for liberationsans, you get liberationsans.
> -maintaining patches against each new upstream release for dozens of packages
> is not trivial, and that little snipped will have to be incorperated and
> maintained seperately for each of those dozens of apps
It's like porting to PAM or NSS instead of reading /etc/passwd by hand. You want
to integrate with the system, *you use the system libraries*. It's not about
what's easiest for the maintainer.
It's about what the packages want, not
about you want to packages to use.
Ralf