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> From: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
> Cc: jpff@codemist.co.uk,  rpluim@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 19:47:41 -0800
> 
> I didn't say anything was wrong, I said it's hard for a user to figure
> out what to use given a set of requirements.

Sorry, I didn't realize your question was in the context of the font
backends, I thought it was a more general question about font setup.
Our best knowledge about the latter is already in fontest.el.  OTOH,
the issue with fonts vs font backends is unrelated to fontsets.