Naming of font packages

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Thu Feb 16 08:45:27 UTC 2006


Le Jeu 16 février 2006 09:26, Frank Arnold a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I need some opinions about the naming of font packages, and finally a
> decision.
>
> At the moment all font packages in Fedora are named FONTNAME-fonts.
> Ignacio suggested a change to font-FONTNAME. Debian obviously uses
> ttf-FONTNAME.
> For me it makes sense to have a prefix instead of a suffix. Lookup for
> different fonts in a sorted package list would be much easier. But this
> would mean a renaming of all existing font packages in Core and Extras.
>
> So what to do?

Live and let live.
There are good arguments on boths sides, and renaming one way or the other
is not worth the pain.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot




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