[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 Greffrath (2023-01-20 07:52:49)
> Am Donnerstag, dem 19.01.2023 um 13:12 +0100 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
> > 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.
> 
> Sure, I was expecting a stubborn reply...
> 
> However, you contradict yourself here:
> 
> On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 01:19:02 +0100 Jonas Smedegaard <jonas at jones.dk> wrote:
> > I agree that it makes sense to split the Noto fonts into more packages.
> 
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 05:56:11 +0100 Jonas Smedegaard <jonas at jones.dk> wrote:
> > What I will do instead is generally split more fine-grained - for all 
> > all users globally to be able to mix and match.

I stand by those words, and see no contradiction.

Perhaps it helps (at least others following along here) to include the
sentence that I wrote just before the narrow you made above:

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


Kind regards,

 - Jonas

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