Re: Should we expect Liberation fonts to be installed?

[Scott Ritchie]

On 08/08/2010 06:56 AM, James McKenzie wrote:
> Scott Ritchie wrote:
> > I was looking through our fairly large collection of open font bugs and
> > realized that things might be a lot simpler if we took some opinionated
> > positions and just declared certain fonts to be dependencies and
> > expected all packagers to provide them.
> >
> > This is similar to bundling our own Tahoma, except much less work.
>
> This might work for Linux, but these fonts are not installed on any
> MacOSX version that I'm aware of.  This might break Wine useage for
> Macs.  It might also break it for Solaris as well.
>
> James McKenzie

It should only break in a way that makes it as bad as it currently is.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie