Including Wine's Tahoma font as a default system font

[Mario Limonciello]

ttf-liberation is a bad example.  It's license still isn't nice enough to be
in main in the first place I thought.

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 16:26, Scott Ritchie <scott at open-vote.org> wrote:

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> Arne Goetje wrote:
> > 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
> >
>
> Looking at current Intrepid, there seem to be quite a few ttf-* fonts
> not installed by default, even free ones.
>
> Shouldn't we be installing ttf-liberation by default for exactly the
> same reason?
>
> Thanks,
> Scott Ritchie
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