Re: pruning the fonts list

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 16:04 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Jeremy Katz (katzj redhat com) said: 
> > 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.
> > 
> > Yes a lot of space in general ends up being used by fonts.  I'd lean
> > towards saying we should make things optional in comps rather than
> > making explicit changes to the livecd, though from a maintenance point
> > of view.  Although I guess if we wanted to do it first on the livecd for
> > F9 and then in general for F10 via comps, that'd be okay
> 
> Well, things like 'these fonts are only useful outside of fontconfig',
> or 'only really used for various terminal emulators' are decisions
> probably best left to the spin, not to the generic comps.

If the apps not using fontconfig aren't marked as defaults, then it's
probably not unreasonable.  At least the bitmap fonts, we should
probably finally take the plunge with

Jeremy