Re: pruning the fonts list

[Kristian Høgsberg <krh redhat com>]

On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 14:17 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 15:57 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > When looking over the LiveCD manifest, and where space is going, I
> > can't help but notice that a lot of it goes to fonts. Here's the
> > full list, AFAICT. The number to the left is the size of the package.
> > I think a good chunk of this could be pruned.
> 
> > 1) Fonts not used by any fontconfig app. I don't think we
> > ship any apps that aren't fontconfig users on the livecd (and
> > if we do, we shouldn't...)
> > 
> > 7140551	xorg-x11-fonts-misc
> > 3417965	xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi
> > 1070826	xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi
> > 1066029	xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-9-100dpi
> > 301748	fonts-KOI8-R-100dpi
> 
> The 'fixed' and 'cursor' fonts have to come from somewhere, or the X
> server won't start.  I believe there's still a bug where they won't show
> up when the built-in font list is used, which means you have to keep
> -misc.
> 
> Of course, we could split out xorg-x11-fonts-mandatory from -misc.  I'll
> take a look at this.

Why don't we just make builtin-fonts work?  I haven't heard of any case
where that breaks, and if there is one we should fix that.

Kristian