Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (265 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Silviu Marin-Caea <silviu_marin-caea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Monday 14 May 2007 06:25:33 pm Michael Loeffler wrote:
>
>> and give feedback on the list. After incorporation of your feedback we'll
>> announce the survey to get broad feedback.
>
> * acroread should stay because it's still the reference rendering software 
> for .pdf.  Although I am very satisfied with KPDF that's the default 
> application which opens .pdf
>
> * agfa-fonts have equal metric to MS fonts, if I have the information 
> correctly, so they're needed.  Note that Red Hat released a set of GPL fonts 
> with equivalent metric to MS.  They're called the liberation fonts

Is there any problem asking everybody for these?  We added these to be
complete...

>
> As a general rule, the more prepackaged software, the better.  If SUSE doesn't 
> have resources to package some of the not-so-widely-used proprietary 
> software, how about the respective vendors start doing that themselves using 
> the nice SUSE build service?

The build service is open source only.  The feeling we have is that we
spend work on some packages that nobody needs - but if people use it...

Andreas
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