[Fedora-fonts-list] [Bug 351571] need fonts-{assamese, marathi, nepali, urdu} metapackages

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Summary: need fonts-{assamese,marathi,nepali,urdu} metapackages


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=351571





------- Additional Comments From petersen at redhat.com  2007-10-25 20:14 EST -------
(In reply to comment #4)
> Why do you need all those metapackages?

Well the problem is the comps package mechanism is still pretty.
I think Jeremy Katz wants to think about ways to improve the situation
but that basically requires major changes in comps (yum).

Basically the current problem is that language groups list their fonts
requirements and some languages require the same fonts.  Then if one
of the language groups is uninstalled the shared font with the other
language will get removed.  Metapackages at least provides a mechanism
to workaround this problem.

But now that we install most fonts by default anyway perhaps fonts
don't need to be listed in language groups as much as before.

We also introduced them for scim for the same reason.
Again a possible solution may be to install scim support by default
again after all, like we in F7.  

> Fedora usual policy is to avoid metapackages,
> package grouping should be done via comps group

Actually metapackages are becoming more common in Fedora
and I don't really understand the aversion to them: in some
cases they seem to be very useful.

> I could understand creating some short-lived metapackages to ease transition
> from the old fonts-*** rpms, but not going metapackage as a long-term solution

My long term plan is also to try to get rid of the metapackages,
but not before there is something better that can replace them.

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