Excessive number of disparate fonts bundled together
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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fonts-noto (Debian) |
Fix Committed
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fonts-noto (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Bug Description
The package `fonts-noto-core` contains 150+ highly exotic fonts, including cuneiform and hieroglyphics. These are high-quality but for all practical intents and purposes, never needed all at once, not even by a PhD in linguistics. 99%+ of the users will need only one language out of those.
This sheer number of fonts clutters font selectors in applications, causing some to freeze[1], and the users to waste time hunting for the fonts they actually care about.
Removing these fonts is an option, but it unnecessarily wastes the time of most users[2] (who use English[3]), is in some cases impossible[4], and far from simple. The question of how to remove unwanted fonts in Ubuntu has come again and again:
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Removing some font packages solves part of the problem, but since `fonts-noto-core` bundles so many fonts together, users have no way of removing unwanted fonts from it.
Can this package be broken up? An easy option, which I believe would cover 80% of the cases with far less than 20% of the effort, would be Latin vs. non-Latin.
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Changed in fonts-noto (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in fonts-noto (Debian): | |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
Thanks for your report. It seems to be an offshoot from <https:/ /discourse. ubuntu. com/t/20924>.
Please note that the fonts-noto packaging happens at Debian, so Debian is a more proper place to bring up this discussion.
I see the old bug <https:/ /bugs.debian. org/756456>. Actually, the fonts-noto package is a meta package which pulls a bunch of binaries:
$ apt depends fonts-noto cjk-extra color-emoji
fonts-noto
Depends: fonts-noto-core
Recommends: fonts-noto-cjk
Recommends: fonts-noto-
Recommends: fonts-noto-
Recommends: fonts-noto-extra
Recommends: fonts-noto-mono
Recommends: fonts-noto-ui-core
Recommends: fonts-noto-ui-extra
Recommends: fonts-noto-unhinted
But since your request is about splitting fonts-noto-core further, I don't think the old Debian bug applies, so you'd better submit a new one.