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

[Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>]

On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 05:17:59PM +0100, Nils Gillmann wrote:
> Okay, sounds odd but reasonable. But what about un-fonts-core and
> un-fonts-extra, if I add -extra (see packages.gentoo.org for
> example), with this naming scheme it should be then font-un
> which gets separated into font-un:core and font-un:extra
> or font-un-core and font-un-extra.

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).

> 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 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.

Andreas