Bug 327524

Summary:	fetchmsttfonts.sh should depend on cabextract
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Forgotten User --EoyBps8f <forgotten_--EoyBps8f>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Stephan Kulow <coolo>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Blocker
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	aj, sndirsch
Version:	RC 1
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Hardware:	Other
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Description Forgotten User --EoyBps8f 2007-09-22 22:42:35 UTC

When using the KDE- (and I guess Gnome-) CD to install opensuse 10.3 cabextract is not installed by default. If one installs fetchmsttfonts.sh cabextract is not installed but fetchmsttfonts.sh just fails silently. Thus fetchmsttfonts.sh should simply depend on cabextract and install it if not already available.

Comment 1 Stefan Dirsch 2007-09-23 09:18:44 UTC

fetchmsttfonts is just a dumb script provided as YOU patch. We resolved this issue in the past by installing cabextract by default. I'm not sure if this is (still) an option for openSUSE 10.3. If not, we should no longer provide this script.

Comment 2 Forgotten User --EoyBps8f 2007-09-23 09:32:49 UTC

If opensuse does not provide fonts that look 1:1 as clear as the ttf-fonts, those fonts are necessary. The user does know how a webpage/the GUI looks on another OS and will get a bad impression of opensuse and linux in general if it looks worse.

Opensuse currently has one of the best impresions regarding fonts since it provides the ttf-fonts needed and enables the bytecode-interpreter in freetype2 by default. This should not be given up because of not installing a 75kb package.

Comment 3 Stefan Dirsch 2007-09-24 20:12:02 UTC

Let's do a blocker of this so it gets some attention.

Comment 4 Stephan Kulow 2007-09-25 09:37:19 UTC

yeah, right. Because I do not jump on every bug I do not pay attention.