New subject: [arch-dev-public] ttf-ms-fonts (WAS: Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] New feature: files verification)

30 Mar 2009

      Eric Bélanger schrieb:
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I added this because of some fonts package which has files in /tmp.
If a package has files in /tmp, it should be reported here, as it is
definitely a bug in the package! It is not pacman's responsibility to fix
this, but the packager's.
I guess he's talking about ttf-ms-fonts. The files that initially get
installed in /tmp are extracted/installed properly afterwards by the
.install script.  I'm not sure why this is done but it might be a
license restriction.
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.

[arch-dev-public] ttf-ms-fonts (WAS: Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] New feature: files verification)

Thomas Bächler

Pierre Schmitz

Aaron Griffin

Thomas Bächler

Aaron Griffin

Pierre Schmitz

Aaron Griffin

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