Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (134 mails)

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>]

At Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:01:24 +0100 (CET),
Michael Matz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Bernhard Walle wrote:
>
> > * Michael Matz <matz@xxxxxxx> [2012-01-30 13:36]:
> > > Given that OpenType, Embedded OpenType and Web Open Font Format are just 
> > > slightly fancy version of TrueType,
> >
> > That's not 100 % correct. There are TrueType-OTF fonts (quadratic
> > splines), normally .ttf and Type1/Postscript-OTF (cubic splines) fonts,
> > normally .otf.
> >
> > However, I think that detail is negligible for packaging. :)
>
> As I said, slightly fancy (which for Type1/PS actually means un-fancy ;) )

Heh, the argument can be religious :)

Installing in /usr/share/fonts/truetype would be most convenient, IMO,
too, as freetype and others look up this directory as the primary
location. 

SVG is a different thing, and I also don't think we need it.
Or, if any, provide it in an individual package.


Takashi
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