Ove Kaaven wrote:
Since Wine is all about emulating a non-free OS, it makes sense to recommend something that's an integral part of that OS, its fonts; undoubtedly, many applications Wine is trying to run will assume they're there.
Maybe, I don't have many Windows applications and, moreover, have installed the msttcorefonts long before wine. But aren't there free TrueType fonts which could be used instead, e.g. in the ttf-freefont and ttf-bitstream-vera packages? I have to admit that wine's font selection scheme is a complete mystery to me.
Anyone willing to run Wine in the first place is unlikely to be against installing anything from contrib. I plan to try to propose a policy amendment (allowing software in "otherosfs" to recommend from "contrib") when I have the time, or at least bring it up for discussion.
I don't like that idea. Even though I have the contrib and non-free sections in my sources.list, that does not mean that I want arbitrary stuff from there installed behind my back.
An alternative I'm open to is to bring the whole Wine package into contrib, but I assume that's not a preferred solution.
Certainly not.
Anyway, I'll defer to any consensus on this, but until there is one, I'll leave the recommends.
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