On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 01:26:11AM +0200, Frederik Schwan via arch-dev-public wrote:
We received a Feature Request today to remove fontconfig and xorg-mkfontscale dependencies from our font packages according to our own font packaging guidelines [0].
I discussed with Eli on #archlinux-bugs and we think it's a no-brainer but before creating a TODO we'd like to ask for your opinions first.
Thank you
Hi, Just as a reference - in another similar feature request [1], Doug Newgard mentioned that not everyone agrees on removing fontconfig and/or xorg-mkfontscale. I believe the following two mails in the mentioned arch-dev-public thread are most relevant: [2][3]. Having said that, I agrees on removing fontconfig & xorg-mkfontscale. Best, Chih-Hsuan Yen [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/59164 [2] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2016-April/027946.html [3] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2016-April/027948.html