From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Font package naming convention
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 18:20:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ioj1sccx.fsf_-_@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8738a5g1nh.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Kost's message of "Thu, 30 Oct 2014 15:52:50 +0300")
Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:
> Andreas Enge (2014-10-30 10:56 +0300) wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:27:49AM +0300, Alex Kost wrote:
>>> Why should? What about “ttf-dejavu”? Should it be called
>>> “dejavu-fonts-ttf” then?
>>
>> Yes, that was a mistake, maybe inspired from the debian package name.
>> We should rename it.
>
> I don't understand why you call it a mistake. It's just a package name
> used by some distributions (and I think it's a good name). Is there a
> convention to use “…-fonts-ttf” in Guix?
There’s no documented convention (yet), so it’s not a mistake strictly
speaking. :-)
>>> Then it shouldn't be prefixed with "ttf". I suggest to use "ttf-…" name
>>> only for packages that provide truetype fonts only. As for the other
>>> font packages, I think they should have "font"/"fonts" in their names,
>>> no matter would it be in the beginning (font-misc-ethiopic) or in the
>>> end (terminus-font).
>>
>> Then what if it contains other types of fonts? Texlive-data/texfm-dist/fonts
>> contains the following 20 subdirectories:
>> afm cmap fea map ofm ovf pfm sfd tfm type1
>> cid enc lig misc opentype ovp pk source truetype vf
>> (not all of them are fonts, some are just metrics and some I do not know).
>> Would you suggest to use prefixes type1-, opentype-, pk- also?
>> Only if the package contains exactly one format? I think modifying our
>> package name rules for fonts will open a can of worms.
>
> I think they should be called “texlive-…”.
>
> What I see in "Arch Linux" is a lot of “ttf-…” packages (including
> “ttf-liberation” and “ttf-dejavu”). IIUC Debian uses the same names for
> TrueType fonts. And I like it. But anyway, if “liberation-fonts-ttf”
> is the prefered variant, I'll fix my patch. But I think “ttf-dejavu”
> should be renamed into “dejavu-fonts-ttf” at first. And what about
> “freefont-ttf” and “ttf-bitstream-vera”?
I think we must settle on a convention, and I would personally prefer to
follow the principle of least surprise–i.e., choose a convention that is
already widespread elsewhere.
WDYT?
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-31 15:38 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 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2014-10-30 17:32 ` Font package naming convention 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 ` Font package naming convention Alex Kost
2014-11-01 9:45 ` Andreas Enge
2014-11-01 10:55 ` Alex Kost
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