From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Font package naming convention
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 12:36:30 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fve3s1nl.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141031175840.GA16902@debian> (Andreas Enge's message of "Fri, 31 Oct 2014 18:58:40 +0100")
Andreas Enge (2014-10-31 20:58 +0300) wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 01:02:44AM +0300, Alex Kost wrote:
>> I'm against any strict binding to an upstream name. Why should we stick
>> to a (potentially strange) upstream name if we know better how a package
>> should be called?
>
> This is what we have done so far and it is part of the packaging guidelines.
> Otherwise there would be absolutely no limit to renaming and bikeshedding.
> What if you think that "foo" should be renamed "bar" and I think it should
> be renamed "truc"?
I think the majority should decide. So if the most of guix people think
that it should be named "bar", then let it be so.
> If you want to make a suggestion of a naming scheme that others can follow,
> please come up with a description of an algorithm as for python modules -
> a transformation of an upstream name into a package name.
I wrote what seems appropriate to me at
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-10/msg00457.html>:
If a package provides only truetype font(s), name it “ttf-…”, other
font packages should contain "font" in their names; or ...
Ludovic Courtès (2014-11-01 00:30 +0300) wrote:
> I’m not completely sure we can come up with a strict algorithm for the
> naming scheme that we will not want to change two weeks later. ;-)
>
> Here’s a possible answer to the above questions, informally:
>
> • Use ‘font-FOUNDRY-FAMILY’ or ‘font-FAMILY’ or
> ‘font-FOUNDRY-COLLECTION’ or ‘font-COLLECTION’ as the name.
>
> Examples: ‘font-bitstream-vera’, ‘font-liberation’, ‘font-unifont’.
>
> • Use ‘font-.*-FORMAT’ only when there happens to be separate packages
> for separate formats. FORMAT would be the format short name, like
> ‘ttf’, ‘otf’, ‘type1’.
>
> WDYT, fellow nitpickers? :-)
>
> IMO the goal should be to find something convenient for users.
> Sometimes, maybe, there will be several valid choices for the package
> name, but that’s fine, I think.
... I agree with this point, and perhaps it would be good to follow a
single simple rule:
A package that provides fonts (only fonts, not some big product with
a couple of fonts), should have "font(s)" in its name, for example:
“freefont”, “font-bitstream-vera”, “terminus-font”,
“liberation-fonts”.
However, I still think that having the following packages would be the
best:
ttf-bitstream-vera
ttf-dejavu
ttf-freefont
ttf-liberation
ttf-symbola
and the following (according to the current convention) would be the
worst:
ttf-bitstream-vera
dejavu-fonts-ttf
freefont-ttf
liberation-fonts-ttf
symbola
--
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-01 9:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-28 6:53 [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add 'ttf-liberation' Alex Kost
2014-10-28 8:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-29 22:16 ` Andreas Enge
2014-10-30 7:27 ` Alex Kost
2014-10-30 7:56 ` Andreas Enge
2014-10-30 12:52 ` Alex Kost
2014-10-30 13:36 ` Andreas Enge
2014-10-30 18:55 ` Alex Kost
2014-10-30 17:20 ` Font package naming convention Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-30 17:32 ` Andreas Enge
2014-10-30 22:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-30 18:55 ` Alex Kost
[not found] ` <20141030191743.GB19999@debian.eduroam.u-bordeaux.fr>
2014-10-30 22:02 ` Alex Kost
2014-10-31 17:58 ` Andreas Enge
2014-10-31 18:00 ` Andreas Enge
2014-10-31 21:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-01 9:52 ` Andreas Enge
2014-11-02 17:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-02 17:49 ` Andreas Enge
2014-11-03 8:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-03 9:30 ` Andreas Enge
2014-11-03 13:36 ` Alex Kost
2014-11-03 20:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-19 9:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-19 10:22 ` Andreas Enge
2014-11-20 7:09 ` Alex Kost
2014-11-23 20:13 ` [PATCH] gnu: Add 'font-liberation' Alex Kost
2014-11-24 14:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-01 9:36 ` Alex Kost [this message]
2014-11-01 9:45 ` Font package naming convention Andreas Enge
2014-11-01 10:55 ` Alex Kost
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