Font package naming convention

[Ludovic Courtès]

Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:

> Andreas Enge (2014-10-30 10:56 +0300) wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I don't understand why you call it a mistake.  It's just a package name
> used by some distributions (and I think it's a good name).  Is there a
> convention to use “…-fonts-ttf” in Guix?

There’s no documented convention (yet), so it’s not a mistake strictly
speaking.  :-)

>>> 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.
>
> I think they should be called “texlive-…”.
>
> What I see in "Arch Linux" is a lot of “ttf-…” packages (including
> “ttf-liberation” and “ttf-dejavu”).  IIUC Debian uses the same names for
> TrueType fonts.  And I like it.  But anyway, if “liberation-fonts-ttf”
> is the prefered variant, I'll fix my patch.  But I think “ttf-dejavu”
> should be renamed into “dejavu-fonts-ttf” at first.  And what about
> “freefont-ttf” and “ttf-bitstream-vera”?

I think we must settle on a convention, and I would personally prefer to
follow the principle of least surprise–i.e., choose a convention that is
already widespread elsewhere.

WDYT?

Ludo’.