Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add 'ttf-liberation'.

[Andreas Enge]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:27:49AM +0300, Alex Kost wrote:
> Why should?  What about “ttf-dejavu”?  Should it be called
> “dejavu-fonts-ttf” then?

Yes, that was a mistake, maybe inspired from the debian package name.
We should rename it.

> Then it shouldn't be prefixed with "ttf".  I suggest to use "ttf-…" name
> only for packages that provide truetype fonts only.  As for the other
> font packages, I think they should have "font"/"fonts" in their names,
> no matter would it be in the beginning (font-misc-ethiopic) or in the
> end (terminus-font).

Then what if it contains other types of fonts? Texlive-data/texfm-dist/fonts
contains the following 20 subdirectories:
afm  cmap  fea  map   ofm       ovf  pfm  sfd     tfm       type1
cid  enc   lig  misc  opentype  ovp  pk   source  truetype  vf
(not all of them are fonts, some are just metrics and some I do not know).
Would you suggest to use prefixes type1-, opentype-, pk- also?
Only if the package contains exactly one format? I think modifying our
package name rules for fonts will open a can of worms.

Andreas