Should The RPM Have These Dependencies?

[Brown, David (Test Dept)]

Bernie, 

I think the developer probably should not specify "font family" but only
"font size or font face," but maybe sometimes they do. If they've
specified a type/family, I would think they should require the proper
font package(s) in the RPM dependencies.

Also, fonts (sometimes) are not released on the GNU general public
license, so they will never be automatically available on a Fedora Core
system without a user acknowledging the particular license restrictions.
If this was the case, "shame" on the developer for using a non-open
font.

Regards,

David (Doc) Brown
Rolls-Royce Electronics Engineer / W2C
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Indianapolis, IN 46206-0420
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From: cinlug [mailto:cinlug-bounces at lists.cinlug.org] On Behalf Of
Bernie Hoefer
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 12:55 AM
To: cinlug at lists.cinlug.org
Subject: Should The RPM Have These Dependencies?

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     Not being a developer, myself, I was curious about a 3rd-party RPM
I recently tried installing on a minimal Fedora 19 system.
     I figured that installing this RPM via yum would pull in any
dependencies it needed.  It pulled in a number of RPMs, but when I ran
the program, the fonts (this is a GUI program) were all screwed up.
All the characters were replaced by solid rectangles.  I had to install
a number of extra RPMs to fix that issue:

adwaita-gtk2-theme
dejavu-fonts-common
dejavu-sans-fonts
dejavu-sans-mono-fonts
dejavu-serif-fonts

     So, my question to you developer-types:  should that RPM have
pulled in those other RPMs as dependencies?  Or, is because these
packages are font and desktop-related and there are (I assume) multiple
font RPMs I could have used, it was right for the developer to not list
them as dependencies?

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