ports/182862: x11-fonts/croscorefonts-fonts-ttf : add some more fonts.
Raphael Kubo da Costa
rakuco at FreeBSD.org
Thu Oct 17 19:20:01 UTC 2013
The following reply was made to PR ports/182862; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Raphael Kubo da Costa <rakuco at FreeBSD.org>
To: <giffunip at tutopia.com>
Cc: <bug-followup at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: ports/182862: x11-fonts/croscorefonts-fonts-ttf : add some more fonts.
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 22:14:11 +0300
<giffunip at tutopia.com> writes:
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 23:35:32 +0300, Raphael Kubo da Costa
> <rakuco at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> Since these new fonts are not part of ChromeOS's core fonts
>> collection
>> (if we can call it that way), wouldn't it make more sense to follow
>> upstream and have a separate port for ChromeOS extra fonts?
>
> To be honest, I am not sure if we can/should clasify them in the same
> package.
> They do share in common that they are metric-compatible to MS fonts
> and they
> are in the same site.
>
> FWIW, this looks like the homesite for the Google collection:
>
> https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/
My opinion isn't really worth anything here, but I'd rather separate
croscorefonts from crosextrafonts as upstream does, but not go as far as
separate crosextrafonts from crosextrafonts-carlito (which upstream
does for some weird reason):
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/overlays/chromiumos-overlay/+/master/media-fonts/
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