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

[Aaron Griffin]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> James Rayner schrieb:
>>
>> We've allowed it in the past when the package has been of
>> significance. Like nvidia and fglrx before those were rewritten.
>
> And we've fixed them and they're not broken any more.
>
>> Though I have all the fonts in my own ~/.fonts, I'd prefer to keep the
>> package in the repos. Installation was at 70% in pkgstats.
>
> Since when are we concerned by that? Our philosophy is to create the distro
> in a clean way, not to do weird hacks just to satisfy our users. Our
> userbase is very comfortable with the AUR and they have always installed
> missing and problematic applications from there. ttf-ms-fonts is no
> different, it is in the AUR (with a clean package,
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=5418).

I see both sides here... I dunno what to do. On one hand, the package
sucks. But on the other hand, we've always tried to keep useful things
around, despite non-free status and the like. I think this package may
be a "necessary evil"