Re: gEDA-user: gEDA-dev: Have we to bundle gaf packages?

[Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Montag, den 23.02.2009, 23:50 +0000 schrieb Peter Clifton:
> 
> I'm not 100% sure, but it is possible that other tools implicitly
> require them as well, since they might try to measure some text whilst
> placing attributes (for example).
> 
I would have expected that tasks like text measurement are performed by
all tools via libgeda? But of course it may be possible that some tools
access the glyphs direct. And libgeda may also depend on or need the
font glyphs... 
> 
> Most distros would hate you for putting data (like the font) along with
> the binary package gschem, since they'd then probably want to re-split
> it out into an architecture dependent, and an architecture independent
> data-package.
> 

Yes, I have not considered this point. Thanks for your explanations.

Stefan




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