On Sat, 05 Oct 2019 at 11:02:00 +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote:
> It’s not ideal, since the dependency isn’t strong, but
> policy says packages can’t depend on font packages — which makes sense in X
> since the fonts can be served remotely. (See
> https://lintian.debian.org/tags/package-depends-on-an-x-font-package.html for
> details.)
Does this recommendation still make sense? It certainly *used to be*
the case that font rendering (and a lot of other rendering) was done
server-side on the X server, possibly with fonts served by a remote
font server like the xfstt package; but my understanding is that this
decade, toolkits like GTK and Qt normally do their rendering locally
and are responsible for loading their own fonts, mostly via fontconfig
and freetype.
smcv
