On Friday, 21 November 2008 at 11:34, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le vendredi 21 novembre 2008 à 10:40 +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' > Mierzejewski a écrit : > > On Friday, 21 November 2008 at 03:07, sean darcy wrote: > > [...] > > > First, I'm a great yum fan. And you are the man. No irony or sarcasm. > > > > > > But... I use a lot of 3rd party fonts that aren't open, like most > > > designers. It's weird/strange/peculiar there's no system-config-fonts > > > that would allow us to install them. > > > > This calls for some font2spec script that'd create a spec file for your > > font and let you build a package from it easily, much like R2spec or > > cpan2rpm. > > R2spec or cpan2rpm work by converting existing metadata. Raw font files > do not have the kind of metadata which could be used to generate > complete spec files. You have significant packager involvment to fill > the info that wouldn't be there otherwise. > > But anyway you're invited like everyone else on the list to review, > comment on and complete the current font packaging guideline change > proposal on > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Fonts_packaging_automation It looks mostly sane (I applied some grammar and punctuation fixes, I hope you don't mind), but I don't like the naming of "rpm-fonts-filesystem". This has nothing to do with rpm itself, hence it shouldn't look like a subpackage of rpm. Instead, I suggest "fonts-filesystem". Regards, R. -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
