fonts package naming guideline

[Felix Miata]

On 2008/07/10 17:31 (GMT+0200) Michal Nowak apparently typed:

> On 10:46 Thu 10 Jul     , Felix Miata wrote:

>> 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. 

> One could say such people should select some font category in their 
> GUI pgk manager and then comfortably select right fonts.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430836 has stopped me from doing
more than token new installs for quite some time, so I don't know the current
state of the package selection process during installation. I don't remember
anything about any package group named fonts last I looked there.

As to the current state of the GUI package manager in F9, I have no idea what
it looks like or can do, because starting KDE4 from KDM kills video or puts
display to sleep in both KDE and all ttys ever since last updates on my Intel
845G.

Try thinking like a n00b trying a distro for the first time instead of
someone who has the whole system hard-coded in their brain - outside your
normal box. Don't you think the first thing they'll think of is typing the
word font or fonts into a search box? It's exactly what I would do, unless
the word fonts was already staring me in the face.

> Or issue:

>  yum groupinfo Fonts

Sweet, but how many n00bs you think are going to know about it within a
reasonable time after installation?

> Just a matter of comps if the category includes non-font stuff.

I don't understand your statement "matter of comps".
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