[Debichem-devel] Bug#567600: ghemical should depend on xfonts-75dpi

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Hi Nicholas,

Thank you for your reply.

Nicholas Breen <nbreen at ofb.net> writes:

> Packages must not depend on any fonts package[1], it's a serious policy
> violation.

How about a recommend, according to the policy?

> xfonts-75dpi and -100dpi are part of the standard X installation ("xorg"
> metapackage); it's possible to uninstall them, but that should only be done if
> you're running a remote font server.  Any X setup that doesn't provide those
> fonts is already broken.

This is kind of personal taste. Xorg metapackage is not clean enough.

Yours,
-- 
XU Benda
Research Center for Neutrino Science
Department of Physics
Tohoku University
JAPAN

http://www.awa.tohoku.ac.jp/~benda