RFC: Making the xfs font server optional in Fedora Core and its derivatives.

[Matt Domsch]

On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 10:23:07AM -0400, Dimi Paun wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 01:16 -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> > On the other hand, there are many applications included both
> > in Fedora Core, and in Fedora Extras, which do rely on the
> > core fonts system still, and are likely to rely on it for the
> > forseeable future. 
> 
> Great to hear we're moving in this direction. 
> 
> I guess the obvious question is "what will break?". Once we
> have a clear idea what really depends on xfs (some packages, 
> like wine, _can_ work with xfs if it's the only available 
> option, or without), we can devise a plan of making xfs 
> optional (moved to Extra along with all apps that depend 
> on it?).
> 
> Regardless, I'm sure such a list would help fix some apps.
> OSS community is rather good I find at this sort of focused
> cleanup efforts.

+1.  See how many BuildRequires are being fixed from a similar QA
project.   Blocker bug against apps that require xfs, and start
tracking those.

Thanks,
Matt

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