Re: Font packages

Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Fri, 8 Jul 2011 02:08:18 +0000,
> Bryan Baron wrote:
>>
>> I recently submitted some font packages (ancient scripts) to M17N. I
>> think I did a mistake naming them as foo-fonts.
>>
>> What's the police for package names? Was that naming scheme right?
>
> I vaguely remember that there were some guidelines in Wiki, but
> in practice, we have no strict rule for it, so far.
>
> Some packages are named as is, some are as *-fonts, and some fonts-*
> or *-ttf-* or such.  Most likely named from the original source
> tarball.
>
> I find *-fonts name is OK, unless someone has a strong objection.
>
> They are still only in M17N, not in FACTORY, so we are free to change
> for now.
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Takashi
>

Well, I think is just better to have a ''standarized" naming scheme.
What about just using the font names, so instead of *foo* we name it
just foo. (ej. symbola-fonts -> symbola, ttf-alee->alee).
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