Re: Is font-google-noto toooooo big as a font package?

[ng0]

ng0 transcribed 2.3K bytes:
> Ludovic Courtès transcribed 0.7K bytes:
> > ng0 <address@hidden> skribis:
> > 
> > > Ludovic Courtès transcribed 0.2K bytes:
> > >> Hello,
> > >> 
> > >> tumashu <address@hidden> skribis:
> > >> 
> > >> > the first thing is improve font-build-system to support split package 
> > >> > easy
> > >> 
> > >> Good point, though I think we also need to find out how we would split
> > >> it, which may not be that simple.
> > >> 
> > >> Ludo’.
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > > noto-cjk is offered in different packages and blends:
> > > https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/cjk
> > > noto itself is offered on the website in many different
> > > blends aswell:
> > > https://www.google.com/get/noto/
> > 
> > So maybe we could make the CJK part a different output or a different
> > package?
> > 
> > Ludo’.
> > 
> > 
> Depending on how active the sources change (I see no version in the
> names of the files) we could take every part and move it to their own
> package, and let "google-font-noto" became a metapackage for those who
> need/want the entire set.
> Even cjk can be a meta set, as all the CJK fonts are split.

Our current noto package isn't any different than the ones offered on
their website: It is versioned (probably from github or a news announcement),
but the file is not really versioned, and our downloaded file into the store
is not versioned aswell.

Now we have two options: Switch to their github repositories for the downloads,
where they are versioned, or use all the individual files from the noto website:

- https://www.google.com/get/noto/
Noto fonts except for CJK and emoji: https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts
Noto CJK fonts: https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-cjk
Noto Emoji fonts and the toolchain to generate Noto Emoji fonts: 
https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji

I'm in favor of just using the unversioned fonts from the
google website because they are a) upstream b) bigger than
github (I'm positive that they have their fallback options)
and c) the files are reasonable grouped in archives.
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