fonts package naming guideline

[Felix Miata]

On 2008/07/10 14:05 (GMT+0200) Nicolas Mailhot apparently typed:

> If I had to propose a convention today that would be

> foundry-name-fonts (single package)
> foundry-name-fonts-sub (subpackage)

Great way to annoy people who use GUI package managers. They generally when
attempting to search for possible fonts to install will get at least 20 times
as many packages not actually containing fonts as packages actually
containing fonts. Since the results are generally sorted alphabetically, the
packages actually containing fonts are scattered randomly among all the
non-fonts packages. How's a person supposed to figure out what packages that
contain fonts are available? And how many people actually care what foundry
produced them?

The right way, cross-distro- would be for all packages containing one or more
fonts start 'fonts-', and all packages not containing fonts not start with
'fonts-'. e.g.

fontconfig-
fonts-bitmap-
fonts-dejavu-
fonts-freefont-
fonts-ghostscript-
fonts-liberation-
fonts-urw-
fonts-xorg-100dpi-
xorg-x11-font-utils-
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