On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 23:13 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le vendredi 18 avril 2008 à 15:57 -0400, Bill Nottingham a écrit : > > When looking over the LiveCD manifest, and where space is going, I > > can't help but notice that a lot of it goes to fonts. Here's the > > full list, AFAICT. The number to the left is the size of the package. > > I think a good chunk of this could be pruned. > > My advice would be: I pretty much second everything Nicolas said. behdad > 1. drop every core fonts package except one to keep legacy users happy > (probably xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-15-100dpi) > > 2. drop xorg-x11-fonts-Type1. Nothing in there not provided by more > modern font packages > > 3. fonts-japanese is probably not 100% necessary when VLGothic is > available > > 4. drop culmus — DejaVu full includes Hebrew no one complained of during > the F9 cycle, so no need to keep a separate Hebrew font on a > space-constrained media > > 5. Have the Arabic l10n group choose between kacst and paktype > > 6. Have the Indic l10n group sort the huge number of indic fonts, > keeping only one package per script (sarai, lohit, smc, samyak) > > 7. Have the Chinese l10n group choose between cjkunifonts-uming and > cjkunifonts-ukai > > 8. add dejavu-fonts-experimental — you *really* want the distro default > fonts to have a complete face set, a lot of users will notice and > complain otherwise > > I'm afraid most wins are in 3. 5. 6. & 7., and they depend on l10n > groups telling us their wishes, which unfortunately has not happened a > lot so far. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Fonts/Triaging/L10N > remains terribly incomplete. > > Regards, > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
