Hi, On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 07:54:13PM +0100, Florent Rougon wrote: > Well, if you can convince an ftp-master, I may change my mind. But your > last argument doesn't hold: currently, Debian has roughly 10000 > packages. If every package would be suddenly split in two parts like > this, we wouldn't get to (roughly) 10001 packages, but 20000, which > would cause considerable problems with the current state of our tools.
Well, we're only talking about one specific package. ;-) > IMHO, you should really make what is necessary to be able to use PFB > files directly in lout. On-the-fly conversion is quite fast, and as such > is probably an option. Yes, this could be an option. > Also, you said that the 2 Mbytes of TFM files you don't need in lmodern > are too much for you, but you didn't mention that adding the PFA > versions of all shipped PFB files would take 4 additional Mbytes of your > precious disk space. Yes, twice as much as "too much"! Agreed. Actually, it is more an `includeres' problem: `includeres' should be able to automatically convert PFB files on the fly when including fonts in a PostScript document. So let's forget about PFA files. Thanks, Ludovic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
