Jens Petersen wrote: > ----- "Toshio Kuratomi" <a.badger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> It also makes it hard for people to work out what the source package name is. >>> >> Not unduly. Unlike our original feedback to Nicolas that a prefix of >> font- would be preferable, this groups the font binary subpackage close >> to the font package it comes from in any menu entries. That makes it >> relatively easy to find the source package. > > That is already mostly true of the current (f10) naming scheme, isn't it? > AFAICS it's currently, maintainer's choice. Am I missing the current Guideline? >>> What is so bad about the current fonts package naming convention >> "name-fonts-face"? >> What is "name" in the above convention? In the original proposal >> handed to us, there was >> foundryname[-fontprojectname]-fonts[-fontfamilyname]. > > Yes, I guess I meant [foundryname-]fontprojectname-fonts[-fontfamilyname]. > >> This seems like an odd format as there's two mandatory and two optional >> sections separated from each other. The sections also bounce back >> and forth between general and specific criteria. > > "%Package family" is a lot simpler than "%Package -n foundry-font-family-fonts". > Simpler is good but this just moves the complexity from the packager to the user. Why do you have "fonts" in the name at all? I assume it's so a person can tell by glancing at the package name that the package contains fonts? So it should be placed somewhere that highlights this fact -- either the beginning or end. What's the difference between a fonts-common and fonts-sans? Do they both contain fonts? >> Pulling the font packages >> out of a list of rpms requires more coding and guesswork than when >> the -fonts is at one end or the other as well. > > Well it just requires "*fonts*" rather than "*fonts". IMHO that is a small win and we are already used to the former glob anyway. > It depends on what you are doing. In yum, '*fonts*' might yield a correct result because you're depsolving. But selecting only packages containing fonts in the shell because you want to find the total size/number of font packages in the repo or make sure they all contain fonts would not work (for instance, they drag in the fonts-common subpackages). -Toshio
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