Including Wine's Tahoma font as a default system font

[Arne Goetje]

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Scott Ritchie wrote:
> Just saw an idea on Ubuntu Brainstorm:
> http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/10754/
> 
> Long and short - why not include Wine's builtin Tahoma replacement font
> as one of the system default fonts?  Users shouldn't have to install
> Wine if they want to view a web page or Word document that uses it.
> Since all Windows systems have it, it's not unreasonable that someone
> would select it.
> 
> Assuming we want to do this, how should this happen, technically?  The
> font is LGPL (like Wine), and built with fontforge, but what package
> should it be merged into?  Or should it be its own new one?

I would suggest to give it its own package and let wine depend on it.

For example: ttf-tahoma

Cheers
Arne
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