[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 fabian at greffrath.com (2023-01-19 12:30:48)
> > I will *not* split the packaging of Noto fonts to optimize specifically
> > for Western society (i.e. Latin + Musical notes + emojis + math 
> > bundle).
> 
> While this for sure sounds noble at first sight, it's also just as 
> questionable.
> 
> I think it's safe to say that the Latin+Greek+Cyrillic variants of Noto 
> Sans and Serif (i.e. those without a suffix) are considered as general 
> purpose fonts and *all the others* which carry a specific suffix in 
> their names are considered as special cases.
> 
> I think splitting up the general purpose fonts from the specialized rest 
> is *at least* the one split that can be asked from this package. 
> Splitting the more specialized fonts up by "writing system" or whatever 
> may be left as an exercise. Apparently these splits aren't as "easy" or 
> unambigious as the aforementioned one, because literally nothing has 
> been undertaken in this regard since at least two years now.
> 
> It seems that this is another case where the perfect (split up by 
> writing system) is the enemy of the good (split up only the LGC fonts). 
> Seriously, we need a fonts-noto-latin or similar package, thanks!

The very purpose of Noto is to cover many scripts.

If you need latin-cyrillic-greek coverage, pick another o the many fonts
covering that smaller scope.


 - Jonas

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