Hi, On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:43:02AM -0700, Mark Hedges wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > > > ttf-sil-gentium-basic is needed to make use of OOOs > > graphite feature, for example. > > If it is required for some feature, then shouldn't it be > required by the packages that use that feature, rather than > by the metapackage?
That won't help anything, in fact it would make this worse - the package requring this would then be -core. Which would force it to you even when you don't install the metapackage. Besides that, for only one feature you can simply install it. > If the font is required only by the metapackage, and I can > install the package that requires the font without > installing the font, isn't that a broken dependency? When the feature is a essential one, yes. Again, the point of the metapackage is to provide a full OOo install. Nothing more and nothing less. And OOo normally *includes* the gentium font (we of couse don't and just depend on it in the metapackage) Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' r...@debian.org | GnuPG-Key ID: D03E3E70 `- Fingerprint: E12D EA46 7506 70CF A960 801D 0AA0 4571 D03E 3E70 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
