Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (141 mails)

[Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 02:19:53PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:55:14 +0100,
> Thomas Schraitle wrote:
> > over the years, I've collected a bunch of great fonts in my home
> > repository. However, it seems we don't have a consistent naming schema
> > for fonts. 
> > Although the Packaging Guidelines[1] links to the old Wiki[2], the
> > information therein is printed in red and I'm not sure how useful is
> > this nowadays.
> >
> > This has some interesting effects. If you search for fonts like this:
> >
> >  # zypper se font
> >
> > you will get _some_ but not all. For example, the popular Linux
> > Libertine and DejaVu fonts are not listed. A user has to _know_ the
> > name. IMHO this is not very intuitive and userfriendly. 
>
> True.  (Though, this reminds me whether any possibility to search for
> RPM group...)

Btw, rpm automatically adds some font() provides *if* the
fonconfig package was installed when the package was built.
This seems to be true of only a couple of our font packages,
though.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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Michael Schroeder                                   mls@xxxxxxx
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