On 10 April 2018 at 13:34, Jens-Ulrik Petersen <petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This will reduce Live images by about 250MB or more by only shipping the Regular and Bold weights, or even more if we only shipped Regular. Otherwise we will see a big impact on iso sizes across the distro which could aversely affect the release.We would like to propose an exception for google-noto-cjk-fonts for Fedora 28 where we will subpackage the extra weight variants to save a lot of space on the Live images and other media.and https://pagure.io/fedora-See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/For Fedora 28 we have Changes to make Google Noto CJK fonts the default for Chinese, Japanese and Korean. This provides a number of advantages include new Serif faces, and Mono fonts for terminals etc.However it comes at a cost: there are 7 weights for each of the Sans and Serif fonts for each of the four languages. Additionally the Mono fonts are only available in very large CJK coverage versions.show_bug.cgi?id=1562315 workstation/issue/46 for size details.For Fedora 29 we plan to move to the more compact OpenType Collection version of the fonts which will provide a considerable saving, but it seems too late to make a such a big change now for F28.Since East Asian fonts are so large, I think it makes sense to have a packaging exception for CJK fonts to allow the subpackaging of weight variants: it could be done with metapackages to make it more obvious (we could even do one package per weight and have a meta package that pulls them all in, if that makes it more clear and discoverable).
Agree with mentioned issue. If we want to give value to users from proposed change i think we need to do some tweaking. Last time i installed all Noto CJK fonts and size was around 1GB+. As a non-CJK user, i definitely not required entire collection of CJK fonts but only 1 variant is sufficient to avoid Tofu.
Will be nice if we can allow this exception to sub-packaging at variant level for this release and try other options for FY19 (.ttc)
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Pravin
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