MS fonts update

[Verde Denim]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:22 PM, P. Echols <p.echo926 at gmail.com> wrote:

> This AM I processed a bunch of updates on my lucid box.  One was an update
> to the mstcorefonts package. I didn't notice it initially because there were
> 65 updates .but it's forced me to click through the EULA. because it is a
> font package, I now wonder what was changed.
>
> Is there a way to find out what changed in the most recent update of a
> package? Thanks for all thoughts.
>
> PE
>
> P
I saw that same update. Generally, I go through synaptic to add most
packages since I'm usually browsing various parts of the repos to see what's
there. You can select a package, then on the menu bar, select
package->properties. This has much of the same info as using apt-cache
policy at the command line, but also lists dependencies and a description of
the package that I noted sometimes includes release notes. I'm not terribly
skilled at all of this yet, but hope this helps somewhat.

I did notice in a search for _core fonts_ in the repo that
ttf-mscorefonts-installer has a note in its description that says it
conflicts with and replaces msttcorefonts. I wonder if the update has
something to do with this (and the fact that msttcorefonts is not in any of
the repos I have).

Regards

Jack
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