Re: [RFC]refactor Noto CJK fonts packaging

Takashi Iwai <[email protected]> Sun, 23 Apr 2017 20:32:25 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.m17n
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 16:36:59 +0200,
Marguerite Su wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> During this weekend, I stripped Noto Sans CJK from google-noto-fonts
> and created two new packages:
> 
> https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/490020
> https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/490022
> https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/490023
> 
> The later two SRs are google-noto-sans/serif-cjk-fonts.
> 
> They are packaged/splitted by region and weight. eg:
> 
> noto-sans/serif-sc-regular-font
> noto-sans/serif-sc-bold-font
> 
> and then re-organized with dummy packages:
> 
> noto-sans/serif-sc-fonts-mini (requires regular and bold)
> noto-sans/serif-sc-fonts (requires all weights)
> 
> I used region specific flavor of noto sans/serif. (sc fonts don't
> contain tc/jp/kr glyphs so the size is small)
> 
> And I counted the size:
> 
> * noto-sans-sc-fonts-mini (11.58mb)
> * noto-sans-tc-fonts-mini (7.96mb)
> * noto-sans-jp-fonts-mini (6.41mb)
> * noto-sans-kr-fonts-mini (5.88mb)
> * noto-serif-sc-fonts-mini (15.14mb)
> * noto-serif-tc-fonts-mini (8.05mb)
> * noto-serif-jp-fonts-mini (8.6mb)
> * noto-serif-kr-fonts-mini (8.57mb)
> 
> which is 72.19mb DVD space in total (31.83mb for sans and 40.36mb for serif)

Thanks!  This looks promising.  So we effectively halved the size.


Takashi
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