Andreas Enge (2014-10-30 01:16 +0300) wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 09:10:30AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> skribis: >> > Not related to this patch: what about renaming ‘freefont-ttf’ package >> > into ‘ttf-freefont’ to make all TrueType fonts have a name "ttf-…"? >> I think so. What do others think? Andreas? > > So far, we have no special rules for font naming. So... > >> > Subject: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add 'ttf-liberation'. >> > * gnu/packages/fonts.scm (ttf-liberation): New variable. > > ...the package should be called liberation-fonts-ttf.
Why should? What about “ttf-dejavu”? Should it be called “dejavu-fonts-ttf” then? > We could install a rule similar to that for python modules, that we always > add ttf in front of true type fonts, or move it in front if it is already > in the name. But I am not convinced this is a good choice: Being truetype > is not inherent to a font, it is just a format, and a package may contain > the same font (or several ones) in different formats. What would we do then? Then it shouldn't be prefixed with "ttf". I suggest to use "ttf-…" name only for packages that provide truetype fonts only. As for the other font packages, I think they should have "font"/"fonts" in their names, no matter would it be in the beginning (font-misc-ethiopic) or in the end (terminus-font). > It would be more reasonable to add "font-" in front. But I am also not too > fond of this. > > Andreas
