font proposal for new installation

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Aug 24 18:45:46 UTC 2012


The new installation interface in Fedora 18:
- doesn't offer individual package selection
- includes infrastructure groups like a fonts group implicitly as
  part of a desktop environment choice

I have the following proposed group to use for that fonts group:

  <group>
   <id>basic-fonts</id>
   <_name>Core set of fonts</_name>
   <_description>Core fonts for all covered scripts</_description>
   <default>false</default>
   <uservisible>false</uservisible>
   <packagelist>
     <packagereq>cjkuni-uming-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>dejavu-sans-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>dejavu-sans-mono-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>dejavu-serif-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>jomolhari-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>khmeros-base-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>liberation-mono-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>liberation-sans-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>liberation-serif-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>lklug-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>lohit-assamese-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>lohit-bengali-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>lohit-devanagari-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>lohit-gujarati-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>lohit-kannada-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>lohit-malayalam-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>lohit-marathi-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>lohit-nepali-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>lohit-oriya-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>lohit-punjabi-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>lohit-tamil-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>lohit-telugu-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>madan-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>nhn-nanum-gothic-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>paktype-naqsh-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>paratype-pt-sans-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>sil-abyssinica-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>sil-padauk-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>smc-meera-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>stix-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>thai-scalable-waree-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>vlgothic-fonts</packagereq>
     <packagereq>wqy-zenhei-fonts</packagereq>
   </packagelist>
 </group>

Would the fonts SIG prefer:

- that this be used for the 'fonts' group?
- that it remain a separate group?

Thanks,
Bill


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