On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:17 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
That package has no place in Arch anyway. It's non-free, unnecessary and improperly packaged. There are good alternatives (ttf-freefont should be okay, also the standard Xorg fonts are enough IMO). AUR has a proper package for this, so people who need it can build that.
I say we drop it, as it does not meet Arch's packaging standards.
I certainly can't argue about the non-freeness of this package and though I currently maintain it, I would be just fine if we moved it to AUR--I do need these fonts, but I've had copies in ~/.fonts for ages and don't require the package at all. If we can get some confirmation that the application we do provide via extra will continue to operate without it, then I've no problem bumping it to AUR/Community.