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

[fabian at greffrath.com]

> 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!

  - Fabian