> At the time of the installation, only one or a few fonts are > available. Thus, the overhead for scanning them at is very small, and, > if there is only one application using it (which is the case as I > understand it), it only happens once.
In order to render text for all the languages supported by the installer, ATM we're actually using quite a few font files: FreeSansBold.ttf FreeSansOblique.ttf FreeSans.ttf ae_AlMohanad.ttf ja.ttf ko.ttf zh.ttf MuktiNarrow_11-08-2005.ttf DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf DejaVuSans.ttf Gargi_1.7.ttf Saab.ttf it's true that the files are used only by one application though; don't know if this is going to change once g-i will use cdebconf plugins. The point is that I thought a fc-cache run, for example, was absolutely necessary and that's why I filed the bug; if I'm wrong and the file is needed only for debugging purposes, I have no problem closing the bug and we can live useing wget to bring the fc-* binaries into the g-i environment if / when needed. regards, Davide Tiscali ADSL 4 Mega Flat Naviga senza limiti con l'unica Adsl a 4 Mega di velocità a soli 19,95 € al mese! Attivala subito e hai GRATIS 2 MESI e l'ATTIVAZIONE. http://abbonati.tiscali.it/banner/middlepagetracking.html%3Fc%3Dwebmailadsl%26a%3Dwebmail%26z%3Dwebmail%26t%3D14%26r%3Dhttp%3A//abbonati.tiscali.it/adsl/sa/4flat_tc/