[Bug 477478] Please convert to new font packaging guidelines

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Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>  2009-01-09 08:42:48 EDT ---
Two QA remarks:

1. Even though the same default font set is likely to be installed in all
Fedora system it's not 100% guaranteed. Fontconfig apps can manage very well as
long as there is one font on the system so we don't peg specific ones via deps
in that case. OTOH, you absolutely need the exact target of your symlinks to be
present or I suppose bad things will happen. So I advice to actually require
the packages providing the font files you've symlinked in your app.

2. While the LGC variants of dejavu are smaller, we install the full versions
by default. So if you depend on the full versions, your app won't consume
resources not already available on most systems. And if you depend on the LGC
versions, you'll force the download of additional material. Therefore linking
the full version instead of the LGC one will be a space win in the majority of
cases

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