On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 22:37:12 +0200, you wrote:
The one thing that speaks for it is size: it is only ~4 MiB
xz-compressed,
whereas a typical font for any single CJK language (which may or may not
have the same limited support as described above for the other 3 languages;
often, there are no characters at all for the unsupported languages) is
20+ MiB xz-compressed. At the time where the decision to ship it on the KDE
Spin was made, the choice was between WQY MicroHei or no CJK support at all.
I think looking into size increases is useful, if for no other reason
than to ensure mistakes don't get overlooked.
But I also think worrying about an artificial size limit, a limit that
made sense in the past, is damaging.
In the past arguments have been made that we have to keep it small for
those with limited and/or expensive bandwidth.
While a noble goal, it is unfortunately something that is only paid
attention to when creating the live images and then immediately
forgotten.
I just started up one of my Fedora vm's, which was last updated 3 days
ago.
In 3 days I now have 50 packages to update/install with a total
download size of 171M.
So in 3 days I have accumulated downloads totally half the size
increase causing all this angst. While certainly not perfect, it
roughly gives me 10G of updates to download and install over a 6 month
life span of a typical Fedora release.
Consult the relevant experts, and based on their recommendations
mandate a base set of fonts that provide a quality first experience
with Fedora for everyone regardless of where they live and what
language they read/write. Making compromises to save 400M on a
distribution that will need 20+G over year doesn't seem very wise.