[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#983291: Bug#983291: fonts-noto-core: Excessive fonts bundles in fonts-noto-core make desired font selection painful

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Dan Dascalescu (2021-02-25 04:43:56)
> Agree that a separation per writing system would be best.
> 
> What would be the effort necessary to achieve that, compared to "Latin 
> vs. others"?
> 
> BTW, Noto Sans Linear A and B also look like some sort of cuneiform 
> font, and I missed Noto Mono and Noto Music from my initial selection 
> of fonts with general applicability.

[snip]

> On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 2:19 PM Jonas Smedegaard <jonas at jones.dk> wrote:
> > I would prefer to relieve the pain also for _all_ users, however.

Let me try rephrase:

I will *not* split the packaging of Noto fonts to optimize specifically 
for Western society (i.e. Latin + Musical notes + emojis + math bundle).

What I will do instead is generally split more fine-grained - for all 
all users globally to be able to mix and match.


 - Jonas

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