Re: [forum] bloatware

[Vadim Plessky <plessky@cnt.ru>]

On Sunday 30 March 2003 04:09, Havoc Pennington wrote:
|  On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 11:49:13PM +0300, Vadim Plessky wrote:
|  > Ok, what about 60MB of "font sources" (PCF, BDF fonts) in XFree86 CVS
|  > and resulting 20MB of "installable fonts" in RPMs?
|  > Isn't it bloatware?
|
|  If you don't want to use those fonts, just delete them. This is not
|  that hard. ;-)

That's not so easy.
Many apps use 'fixed' font name as default fontback.
Those apps (incl. Window Managers) would just crash if that font is missing.

Besides, deleting 60Mb of fonts from sources would reduce size of all Linux 
distributions - RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE, etc.
I am speaing about both RPMs and SRPMs combined.

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