Re: [PATCH] Add un-fonts (new patch, closes old thread)

[Nils Gillmann <niasterisk@grrlz.net>]

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:

> A bit odd indeed, but okay, I think. I would either go with "font-un" and put
> everything into it (or keep just the core part and drop the extra part, as you
> wish), or "font-un-core" and "font-un-extra" (in two packages,
> for instance).

for now I go with font-un and later add the (not part of the
package at all, but lying around somewhere else) -extra fonts.

>> In general I wonder, can't we use a gentoo:// for mirror and pull
>> the font files from there? They have a reasonable distributed
>> architecure of servers and to my knowledge no file includes
>> patches, the patches are in the portage directories, not the
>> distdir directory.
>> If there's no gentoo mirror option, maybe we can add that later.
>
> I do not know how their files are organised. Are they just tarballs? Do the
> tarballs have absolute path names (to "/usr" or such)?

I will look into that when I have enough time. generally, most
are tarballs if I remember correctly.

> I think the hosting
> options of the tarball you proposed are fine. Maybe also give the location
> of the mime-faulty original in a comment (I think Ludovic suggested that),
> so if the mirror disappears, we can still find the source somewhere.

Yes, see new patch which only has a faulty texinfo markup I need
help with.

thanks,
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