FS#47425 - [noto-fonts] contains superfluous fonts

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Phil Schaf (flying-sheep) - Thursday, 17 December 2015, 19:53 GMT
Last edited by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Friday, 18 December 2015, 16:30 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

i would really like to avoid Arial, Courier New, and Times New Roman. unfortunately, the noto-fonts packages contains metrically compatible versions of those fonts.

would it be possible to split them off into their own package so they don’t get pulled in via the frameworksintegration package’s dependencies?

…also shouldn’t the package be called “ttf-noto-fonts”
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Closed by  Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Friday, 18 December 2015, 16:30 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Thursday, 17 December 2015, 20:25 GMT
Why not just use https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration#Whitelisting_and_blacklisting_fonts ?
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Thursday, 17 December 2015, 23:04 GMT
This report is baffling to me. You think the package should be split because of some odd preference you have?

Like arojas said, you can use fontconfig, you can use NoExtract in pacman.conf, or you can maintain the package locally. I really don't see changing the package in the repos without a better reason than "I want to avoid them".
Comment by Phil Schaf (flying-sheep) - Friday, 18 December 2015, 10:51 GMT
Actually the “I want to avoid them” is just an anecdote on how I discovered this: I recognized Arial on a webs site and wondered how I have it, discovering Arimo and using pacman -Qo to find where it comes from.

The reason for this report is another one: I just thought that the package “noto-fonts” should only contain fonts of the “Noto” family:

The list of fonts here doesn’t contain the other three: http://www.google.com/get/noto/

The other three are called “Arimo”, “Cousine”, and “Tinos”, not “NotoSomething”, and have a different style from the Noto family.

So IMHO this should be renamed into ttf-chromeos-fonts or the non-Noto fonts should be removed/split off. That’s reasonable, I guess?
Comment by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Friday, 18 December 2015, 16:29 GMT
The package ships the exact contents of a repository literally called "noto-fonts", so we're just following upstream here

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