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

ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬) czchen at debian.org
Tue May 16 15:56:44 UTC 2017


On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 07:20:02PM +0200, Gregor Riepl wrote:
> 
> If all styles are installed, the total package size would be ~120MB for the
> CJK fonts vs. ~30-60MB for each of the other languages.
> 
> Not a huge overhead, though I don't know if it would have any impact on
> usability. Probably not.

The only impact I know is #845058, the install time for the fonts is too
long due to font cache updating. I am not sure if this is a good reason
to split the package.


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