odd file-requires in f7 packages

[Adam Jackson]

On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 21:25 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le jeudi 17 mai 2007 à 15:10 -0400, seth vidal a écrit :
> > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 21:06 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > > Le jeudi 17 mai 2007 à 21:14 +0200, Hans de Goede a écrit :
> > > 
> > > > I'm open to suggestions to doing this smarter. And ship a private copy of 
> > > > Vera.ttf is not a good suggestion!
> > > 
> > > At least require a DejaVu variant as Vera is been quietly deprecated.
> > > 
> > 
> > or a virtual provides in both packages.
> 
> Read again the original message: these apps are bypassing all the font
> infrastructure. They access fonts via hardcoded file names and locations
> (which do change in font packages, maybe not every month but often once
> during a release¹).
> 
> Font packages may be derivatives of the same original project but they
> definitely do *not* share the same filenames and a virtual just plain
> won't work.
> 
> IMHO the file dep is perfectly logical there because that's what the app
> actually needs. It may not be yum's ideal model but that's how these
> apps are coded and pretending otherwise just leads to fast *BROKEN* deps

It's not anyone's ideal model.  rpm happens to be the only packaging
system that lets you do file provides.  How does Debian do it?

Alternatively, someone just port the damn thing to Xft already.

- ajax