odd file-requires in f7 packages

[Hans de Goede]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 21:14 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> seth vidal wrote:
>>> Hi folks,
>>>  I sifted through all the file-requires in f7 from here: 
>>>   http://koji.fedoraproject.org/static-repos/f7-final-current/i386/
>>>
>>> and I generated this list:
>>> http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/misc/what-requires-crazy-files.txt
>>>
>> Good work.
>>
>> These 2 are mine:
>> xblast-0:2.10.4-2.fc7.i386:/usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf
>> chess-0:1.0-5.fc7.i386:/usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf
>>
>> These are both games which used to be shipped with some none free font, since 
>> these fonts get openened and rendered directly not through X / Xftconfig, I 
>> know no other way to make sure those files are there, basicly the (patched) 
>> code for this games does:
>> fopen("/usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf", "r"). Since fonts have moved 
>> around sometimes in the past, and that will break this games, I've written the 
>> Requires as file requires, so that I get broken requires report from the 
>> requires checking scripts during the devel cycle instead of BZ entries from 
>> users that it crashes once the new font layout hits the streets in the next 
>> fedora release.
>>
>> I'm open to suggestions to doing this smarter. And ship a private copy of 
>> Vera.ttf is not a good suggestion!
> 
> I'd have two suggestions:
> 1. require bitstream-vera-fonts
> 2. monitor checkins to that package to see if the files have changed
> paths
> 
> 
> I know that's not much fun but then again - how often do fonts change
> their locations?
> 

concidering the fact that most people will already have bitstream-vera-fonts 
installed (and assuming yum will find that the requires is fullfilled without 
downloading filelists in this case) I do not think the pain is worth the gain 
in this particular case.

Regards,

Hans