On 27/02/15 08:45, Ben de Groot wrote: > On 22 February 2015 at 03:43, Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> To anyone within Gentoo who is interested in fonts >> >> I would like to announce a meeting to be held in #gentoo-meetings on >> Freenode, on Friday February 27 at 06:00 UTC, unless another date >> and/or time will be suggested by people who want to attend. > > Since nobody actually showed up, here is what I've decided and am proposing: > > 1. lu_zero, matsuu, pva: do you still want to be members of the Fonts > project? Then add yourselves to the new project page: > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Fonts
I do not have enough time for it right now. > 2. Since aballier voted for me, and there were no other nominations, > we default to me becoming the lead. Fine for me. > 3. Handling of fonts with both truetype and opentype variants, as > brought up in https://bugs.gentoo.org/406301#c8 > Since OpenType is an extension of TrueType, and superior for desktop > and printing use, I propose that we prefer installing just OpenType. > But this should be user configurable, so in those cases I propose we > do: > > IUSE="+opentype" > if use opentype; then > FONT_SUFFIX="otf" > else > FONT_SUFFIX="ttf" > fi If both are installed which is picked? > 5. Some fonts have webfont variants (WOFF is the important one here). > This may be useful for users doing web development. What are your > thoughts on installing those (conditionally, toggled by useflag)? I'd make it an use expand FONTS="otf ttf woff" If nothing is set install all, if some are set install those. lu
