Fedora 11 font package changes proposal (renames, splits, etc)

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Nov 10 17:10:35 UTC 2008


Nicolas Mailhot (nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net) said: 
> ▶ package splits, to offer more flexibility to spin groups and fedora
> users

...
> ▶ help spins and users
> 
> Wanting serif from dejavu, mono from liberation, and sans from tiresias,
> without dragging in all the other dejavu/liberation/tiresias fonts is a
> valid setup.

This sounds like severe overkill. If they want different scripts, why
not just adjust their fontconfig configuration? Realistically, I can't
think of an example where we'd want to ship dejavu for one script but
not another. Do you have one?

It's not as if the split would save that much space on any normal
install.

Bill




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