[Bug 2483] Review request: msttcore-fonts - TrueType core fonts for the web

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https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2483

--- Comment #19 from Rob Janes <janes.rob at gmail.com> 2012-10-08 06:50:55 CEST ---
Orcan - did you manage to look at any of the links?

try this one ...

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mscorefonts2/files/rpms/

and look at the README.  If your question is really "why would someone want
this package" I'm sure you'll find an answer there.

If your question is just as stated, "why would we want this package" ... I'm
not sure that I'm in this "we" you might be referring to, so I am probably not
qualified to answer that question.  Really, the longer I linger here, the more
I'm inclined to that perspective.  Perhaps reviewing the various comments
preceding this post will uncover an answer for that kind of question.

All I can speak to is to why *I* would want this package.  This I know:

A substantial number of howto's for installing fedora 17 include instructions
for installing the ms truetype fonts for the web.  The instructions are long,
failure prone, not obvious, clumsy, dated, and broken.  I seek to have simple
instructions that are not broken, just like in debian.

By broken, I mean broken in the sense that they do not work, they spit out
errors and then die leaving crap behind, not broken in some aesthetic sense of
rpm correctness.  I tried a few of those howto recipes and discovered the
sourceforge links were broken, the rpm failed, and even if it did install the
fonts they were not recognized.  So, not only were the instructions bad, but
the resultant rpm was broken in a non-aesthetic functional sense.

In looking for a solution I found a number of efforts on the net to solve the
problems.  Some addressed the sourceforge link problem successfully.  There
were attempts to fix the font indexing problem, but none seemed to properly fix
it.  Certainly, nowhere was there cognizance of the two separate X fonts
systems, and how to add fonts to both of them.  Most of all, nowhere was there
a distributable rpm that was easy to use.

I would like to see as the instruction in the howtos:

yum install msttcore-xxxx

This instruction would download from sourceforge without error, and install the
fonts correctly to both X core and Xft, completely automatically without any
eula intervention.

A substantial commonality of the fedora 17 howto's include instructions for
setting up rpmfusion.  That's why I came here.  If this package is accepted
into rpmfusion, then the above instruction will be possible.

As it stands now, the instruction is

rpm -i
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mscorefonts2/rpms/msttcore-fonts-installer-2.2-1.noarch.rpm

I don't like it, it's fragile and has the version number in the name.  It is
one line though, and I could change the "2.2-1" to "current".  It is better
than what came before.

'nuf said (thanks stan).

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