fonts packages review and conffile-without-noreplace-flag warning

Callum Lerwick seg at haxxed.com
Wed Mar 28 19:50:53 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 08:00 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le mardi 27 mars 2007 à 22:26 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi a écrit :
> 
> > If the font is removed, then the config file has to be updated.  But the
> > thing is that the user intiates all of these actions.
> 
> Bzzt
> - when you bundle lots of different fonts in a single package the user
> can't control fonts at the rpm level, since the bundle will always exist
> but with different contents (that's a big problem with fonts-region
> packages)

Bundling multiple, not directly related items together in a single RPM
is just plain wrong in any case. Each font should be split into its own
package, and the "fonts-japanese" package can be a meta-package that
depends on them.
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