texlive-fonts-extra is huge!

This package is 230MB in current Ubuntu 16.04, but looks like its up to 700 MB in upcoming versions. Is there anything that can be done to improve the granularity of this, for example by packaging fonts separately by name, and then having a metapackage that groups them all to provide the current behaviour where required?

For example, when installing 'python-sympy', does it *really* need all of these 200+ MB of fonts? Seems very unlikely, but current packaging gives no way round.