[Bug 670615] font autoprovides can be a bit overzealous

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--- Comment #4 from Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> 2011-01-20 08:15:27 EST ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> Maybe we should just not automatically add any lang= provides (or requires) if
> the orthography is the latin alphabet?

This is a very bad idea :

1. all latin scripts are not limited to ASCII
2. a lot of fonts haver partial latin coverage
3. right now an app knows that if it calls the font auto-installer, and gets no
answer, that's because no suitable font is available, if font provides are
filtered out for some scripts no answer will not mean anything

If the volume of font provides is too big for tools they should be moved to a
separate index createrepo side as has been done for file provides.

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