Quoting Khaled Hosny (2014-01-21 11:06:14) > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 08:10:43AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: >> Quoting Bob Bib (bobbib...@mail.ua): >>> please remove 'texlive-xetex' from "Recommends:", as it's not >>> required to have any TeX system installed by default to use a font. >>> >>> (Probaly, the correct relation is "Suggests:" or "Enhances:"). >> >> You're entirely right. I dropped the relationshio completely as this >> was, imho, an abuse of package relationship. I see no reason to >> enforce, or even suggest a TeX-like system on people who just install >> a font package. Even a very weak relationship is abusive, imho. > > It is an OpenType math font, the only applications in Debian that can > use its full potential are XeTeX and LuaTeX :) (though this is > changing, as Firefox is working on supporting these fonts).
This is an issue of _direction_ of relationship: A font does not "need" a rendering environment. It is the other way around. Similar to libraries not needing executables, and plugins not needing what they plug into. Correct thing to do here, I believe, is to mark the font package as "Enhances: texlive-xetex", as suggested by Bob. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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