[arch-dev-public] ttf-linux-libertine
Hi, I'd like to bring ttf-linux-libertine from community to extra. It is an excellent, general-purpose Open-Type serif font. It has 84 votes on AUR. Is that ok with you? Firmicus
Am Montag 06 April 2009 10:23:20 schrieb Firmicus:
Is that ok with you?
Yes it is. -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre@jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de
On 4/6/09, Firmicus <Firmicus@gmx.net> wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to bring ttf-linux-libertine from community to extra. It is an excellent, general-purpose Open-Type serif font. It has 84 votes on AUR.
Is that ok with you?
Firmicus
Your message got me looking at the fonts currently in the extra repo. There are quite a few fonts there of which I've never heard of, and quite a few of them are orphans. Not sure if they deserve their place in extra as I'm not an artistic type of guy who does a lot with fonts and such, but how about swapping some of them with the most popular fonts in community (liberation, freefont, inconsolata and libertine)? All these seem to be maintained by developers anyway so it won't increase workload. Ronald
Ronald van Haren a écrit :
On 4/6/09, Firmicus <Firmicus@gmx.net> wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to bring ttf-linux-libertine from community to extra. It is an excellent, general-purpose Open-Type serif font. It has 84 votes on AUR.
Is that ok with you?
Firmicus
Your message got me looking at the fonts currently in the extra repo. There are quite a few fonts there of which I've never heard of, and quite a few of them are orphans. Not sure if they deserve their place in extra as I'm not an artistic type of guy who does a lot with fonts and such, but how about swapping some of them with the most popular fonts in community (liberation, freefont, inconsolata and libertine)? All these seem to be maintained by developers anyway so it won't increase workload.
Ronald
I actually thought freefont and liberation were already in extra. Well, they definitely deserve to be there, along with libertine and inconsolata. I could even maintain them if pressh and BaSh don't want to. Indeed, several fonts in extra could be moved to community. The following ones certainly: ttf-fireflysung ttf-isabella ttf-mph-2b-damase and perhaps also: ttf-junicode (even though I like and use this one!) ttf-cheapskate ttf-ms-fonts (we had a discussion about this one) And what about ttf-bitstream-vera? Since DejaVu is a superset thereof and is actively developed, there is no real need for Vera anymore. On the other hand I don't think we should remove fonts that belong to the i18n category, such as ttf-arphic-uming ttf-arphic-ukai ttf-indic-otf ttf-freebanglafont ttf-thai ttf-khmer ttf-tibetan-machine etc François
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 5:58 AM, Firmicus <Firmicus@gmx.net> wrote:
Ronald van Haren a écrit :
On 4/6/09, Firmicus <Firmicus@gmx.net> wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to bring ttf-linux-libertine from community to extra. It is an excellent, general-purpose Open-Type serif font. It has 84 votes on AUR.
Is that ok with you?
Firmicus
Your message got me looking at the fonts currently in the extra repo. There are quite a few fonts there of which I've never heard of, and quite a few of them are orphans. Not sure if they deserve their place in extra as I'm not an artistic type of guy who does a lot with fonts and such, but how about swapping some of them with the most popular fonts in community (liberation, freefont, inconsolata and libertine)? All these seem to be maintained by developers anyway so it won't increase workload.
Ronald
I actually thought freefont and liberation were already in extra. Well, they definitely deserve to be there, along with libertine and inconsolata. I could even maintain them if pressh and BaSh don't want to.
Indeed, several fonts in extra could be moved to community. The following ones certainly: ttf-fireflysung ttf-isabella ttf-mph-2b-damase and perhaps also: ttf-junicode (even though I like and use this one!) ttf-cheapskate ttf-ms-fonts (we had a discussion about this one) And what about ttf-bitstream-vera? Since DejaVu is a superset thereof and is actively developed, there is no real need for Vera anymore.
On the other hand I don't think we should remove fonts that belong to the i18n category, such as ttf-arphic-uming ttf-arphic-ukai ttf-indic-otf ttf-freebanglafont ttf-thai ttf-khmer ttf-tibetan-machine etc
Generally, all these fonts packages are rarely updated upstream so as long as they are up-to-date and in working conditions, I see no problem in keeping them in extra. BTW, ttf-fireflysung and ttf-mph-2b-damase are i18n-related so should remain in extra.
François
participants (4)
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Eric Bélanger
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Firmicus
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Pierre Schmitz
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Ronald van Haren