On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 11:40:44AM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote: > Yes, you're right about removing the free part. I simply wanted to > make a single package of truetype fonts for ease of use. I see now > that there are a number of ttf packages, but they seem to all be asian > charsets. I'm trying to create an alternative for msttcorefonts and > xfonts-scalable-nonfree packages (which do not follow the convention > you have mentioned here).
As for the packaging of xfonts-scalable-nonfree. It is all from one source distribution, unlike your proposed package. From the package description: "... xfonts-scalable-nonfree contains a set of Type1 and TrueType fonts that are part of the XFree86 distribution," Likewise, msttcorefonts was a coherent collection, all from the same foundry and distributed together. But given that these fonts are all from different sources, they should not all be in one package. The proper way of doing this kind of aggregation is to make a meta package (a package that contains nothing but dependencies on other packages) that depends on these fonts. Think of a suitable name that distinguishes your aggregate from other possible packages and use the "ttf-" prefix to indicate this package provides TrueType fonts. Thus, if the common thread is that these are all suitable for displaying latin alphabets, then you might have ttf-latin[1]. If your collection is a personal collection, distinct from other peoples' latin font collections, you might call it ttf-cardenas-latin instead. :) Ben [1] This does not rule out the possibility that one or more font packages included in this aggregate may also be suitable for non-latin characters. -- nSLUG http://www.nslug.ns.ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ pgp key fingerprint = 7F DA 09 4B BA 2C 0D E0 1B B1 31 ED C6 A9 39 4F ] [ gpg key fingerprint = 395C F3A4 35D3 D247 1387 2D9E 5A94 F3CA 0B27 13C8 ]