Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (142 mails)

[Thomas Schraitle <toms@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

over the years, I've collected a bunch of great fonts in my home
repository. However, it seems we don't have a consistent naming schema
for fonts. 
Although the Packaging Guidelines[1] links to the old Wiki[2], the
information therein is printed in red and I'm not sure how useful is
this nowadays.

This has some interesting effects. If you search for fonts like this:

 # zypper se font

you will get _some_ but not all. For example, the popular Linux
Libertine and DejaVu fonts are not listed. A user has to _know_ the
name. IMHO this is not very intuitive and userfriendly. 

On the other side, we have lots of fonts which are very inconsistently
named. Here are some examples:

  farsifonts
  fonts-arabic
  freefont
  gnu-unifont
  indic-fonts
  intlfonts-ttf
  xorg-x11-fonts

From a usability perspective, it would be very convenient to have a
consistent naming schema with a specific prefix (or suffix), for
example a "-fonts" suffix.

Ubuntu has the prefix "ttf-" for their packages:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=natty&section=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=ttf

Fedora has the suffix "-fonts" for their packages:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/list/*-fonts*?_csrf_token=b2721571e462ba9a4dbb87068cad45089ec9dc43


Another issue: Do we have a special repository dedicated only to fonts?
I couldn't find any... Do you think this is useful?


What do you think?


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[1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines
[2]
http://old-en.opensuse.org/Packaging/Fonts_Policy#Package_layout_for_fonts

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