[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#862276: fonts-noto-cjk: I recommend spliting fonts-noto-cjk to make it become targeted and flexible

[Kess Vargavind]

2017-05-16 12:42 GMT+02:00 Jonas Smedegaard <jonas at jones.dk>:

> If your concern is namespace clash, then I don't know if that is the
> case - if it is then those packages will need to conflict against each
> others, I guess.  Even then I believe it is still beneficial for our
> users to be able to choose between
> least-diskspace-cover-all-requiring-advanced-OpenType-support and
> least-diskspace-cover-only-single-region-working-with-simpler-programs
> packages, and I see no other ways to cover both those scenarios.
>

​I am in no way saying this is the optimal solution, but it *is* at least
another way...

Keep Noto CJK as several fonts and package Adobe’s virtually equivalent
Source Han as one super OTC.

By the way, Ken Lunde has also made available this amazingly silly super
OTC [0][1], in case you are interested!

[0]
https://blogs.adobe.com/CCJKType/2017/04/three-multiple-family-super-otcs.html
[1] https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-super-otc

—Kess
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