Debian Developers - Re: Please, not more font packages

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Re: Please, not more font packages

Frank Küster

2004-09-02, 6:55 pm

Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de> wrote:

> But in the next month I will make all fonts in groups to Debian-
> Packages and they will be availlable from my apt repository.
>
> No wory about it... I will not flood Debian with 160 xfonts-*
> Packages.

Wouldn't it be possible to write an installer package that simply takes
the fonts in a directory you point it to, installs them in appropriate
places in /usr/local and registers them to the different font systems?

Regards, Frank
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Frank K=FCster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie