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

[Allan McRae]

Loui Chang wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 04:39:23PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
>>     
>>> Am Montag, 30. März 2009 12:17:07 schrieb Thomas Bächler:
>>>       
>>>> I say we drop it, as it does not meet Arch's packaging standards.
>>>>         
>>> Yes, if we cannot package it the way we want, lets drop it.
>>>       
>> Can we confirm that things look "nice" without these fonts? I remember
>> fonts being terribly ugly way back when without this package.
>>     
>
> Actually I would recommend that ttf-ms-fonts be made a depends, or at
> least an optdepends of wine. The text in some windows programs is
> unreadable without it.
>   

And there is/was a bug about text in youtube (or some other flash site) 
no showing without it being installed.

Allan