Quoting fab...@greffrath.com (2023-01-19 12:30:48) > > I will *not* split the packaging of Noto fonts to optimize specifically > > for Western society (i.e. Latin + Musical notes + emojis + math > > bundle). > > While this for sure sounds noble at first sight, it's also just as > questionable. > > I think it's safe to say that the Latin+Greek+Cyrillic variants of Noto > Sans and Serif (i.e. those without a suffix) are considered as general > purpose fonts and *all the others* which carry a specific suffix in > their names are considered as special cases. > > I think splitting up the general purpose fonts from the specialized rest > is *at least* the one split that can be asked from this package. > Splitting the more specialized fonts up by "writing system" or whatever > may be left as an exercise. Apparently these splits aren't as "easy" or > unambigious as the aforementioned one, because literally nothing has > been undertaken in this regard since at least two years now. > > It seems that this is another case where the perfect (split up by > writing system) is the enemy of the good (split up only the LGC fonts). > Seriously, we need a fonts-noto-latin or similar package, thanks!
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