From: Raghav Gururajan <raghavgururajan@disroot.org>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: 40708@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#40708] gnu: font-gnu-unifont: Unify outputs for fonts.
Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 00:54:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4f1c21b4-b3f2-b8e0-a434-26a5c1b8d0de@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200423160538.GA29046@jasmine.lan>
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Hi Leo!
Sorry for the delayed response.
> Unifont provides TrueType, PCF, and PSF. It does not have OTF fonts.
That's correct. I was suggesting a scenario of using more than one type. :-)
> Currently, if a user installs 'font-gnu-unifont' they get TrueType
> fonts.
>
> On the other hand, the PSF fonts can be used in the bootloader and the
> Linux console, and they are only 68 kilobytes, rather than ~22 megabytes
> if you combine all the font outputs. I don't see a compelling reason for
> that increase.
OK. I think of two reasons: 1) If one installs this package with
suggested patch, the user can use unifont for any purpose as they wish.
It may be application (ttf), console/grub (psf) and/or display server
(pcf). 2) The setup will be consistent with other font packages, where
the package installs fonts with all the types it can provide.
> If the problem is that packages with multiple outputs are confusing, we
> should try to improve the UI, and we shouldn't use multiple outputs if
> there isn't a good reason. But this is a case where I think it makes
> sense.
Improving UI would be good too. Regarding multiple outputs, I think it
is good enough to separate libs, bins and docs. In this packages, we
already separated bin and fonts. I suggest that we shall not separate
fonts further into it's subtypes. That is all I ask. :-)
Regards,
RG.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-19 5:24 [bug#40708] gnu: font-gnu-unifont: Unify outputs for fonts Raghav Gururajan
2020-04-23 2:30 ` Leo Famulari
2020-04-23 2:44 ` Raghav Gururajan
2020-04-23 16:05 ` Leo Famulari
2020-05-11 4:54 ` Raghav Gururajan [this message]
2020-05-11 5:32 ` Raghav Gururajan
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