Re: pruning the fonts list

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 23:13 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le vendredi 18 avril 2008 à 15:57 -0400, Bill Nottingham a écrit :
> > 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.
> 
> My advice would be:

I pretty much second everything Nicolas said.

behdad

> 1. drop every core fonts package except one to keep legacy users happy
> (probably xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-15-100dpi)
> 
> 2. drop xorg-x11-fonts-Type1. Nothing in there not provided by more
> modern font packages
> 
> 3. fonts-japanese is probably not 100% necessary when VLGothic is
> available
> 
> 4. drop culmus — DejaVu full includes Hebrew no one complained of during
> the F9 cycle, so no need to keep a separate Hebrew font on a
> space-constrained media
> 
> 5. Have the Arabic l10n group choose between kacst and paktype
> 
> 6. Have the Indic l10n group sort the huge number of indic fonts,
> keeping only one package per script (sarai, lohit, smc, samyak)
> 
> 7. Have the Chinese l10n group choose between cjkunifonts-uming and
> cjkunifonts-ukai
> 
> 8. add dejavu-fonts-experimental — you *really* want the distro default
> fonts to have a complete face set, a lot of users will notice and
> complain otherwise
> 
> I'm afraid most wins are in 3. 5. 6. & 7., and they depend on l10n
> groups telling us their wishes, which unfortunately has not happened a
> lot so far. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Fonts/Triaging/L10N
> remains terribly incomplete.
> 
> Regards,
> 
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