Re: fonts group in comps clean up proposal

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liberation-fonts is pulled in by the packages requriing it - e.g. LibO
has weak deps if available otherwise R: to them - in that sense we
don't need it by default. if it is useful for anything else, including
other spins, we could keep it in default though.

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 6:29 PM, David Kaspar [Dee'Kej]
<dkaspar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey Akira,
>
> isn't the google-noto-emoji-fonts used for displaying of emojis in F28 from
> now on? Or is some different font used for it? (I know I've read some
> release note for F28 saying something about better emoji support.)
>
> Also, I would say Liberation fonts might be quite used by Red Hat folks
> (https://brand.redhat.com/elements/typography/), so it might be nice to keep
> it. On the other hand, I understand the point to not pollute people's
> environment unless really necessary. :)
>
> Others can be IMHO removed from default installation... ;)
>
> David Kaspar [Dee'Kej]
> Associate Software Engineer
> Brno, Czech Republic
>
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> On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 7:29 AM, Akira TAGOH <tagoh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> There might seems some extra font packages being installed by default.
>> I rewrote a script to generate the default font table [1] to estimate
>> with more accurate way and checked fonts group with it.
>>
>> Here is the list of font packages not used for any languages as a
>> default font. if no particular reasons to keep it in default, I'll
>> propose to move them to optional. please comment if you have. and
>> maybe good to keep the reason as a comment in comps perhaps.
>>
>> aajohan-comfortaa-fonts (from commit log; moved to default because of
>> design-suite)
>> abattis-cantarell-fonts (default font in GNOME)
>> google-noto-emoji-fonts
>> google-noto-sans-lisu-fonts
>> google-noto-sans-mandaic-fonts
>> google-noto-sans-meetei-mayek-fonts
>> google-noto-sans-tagalog-fonts
>> google-noto-sans-tai-tham-fonts
>> google-noto-sans-tai-viet-fonts
>> julietaula-montserrat-fonts (from commit log; moved to default because
>> of design-suite)
>> liberation-mono-fonts
>> liberation-sans-fonts
>> liberation-serif-fonts
>> paratype-pt-sans-fonts
>> sil-mingzat-fonts (moved to default for Lapcha script but no orth in
>> fontconfig. need this?)
>> tabish-eeyek-fonts (moved to default for Meitei but not satisfying
>> coverage for mni. need this?)
>>
>> [1] https://tagoh.fedorapeople.org/fonts/f28-defaultfonts-mock.html
>> --
>> Akira TAGOH
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