Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> skribis: > Andreas Enge (2014-10-30 10:56 +0300) wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:27:49AM +0300, Alex Kost wrote: >>> Why should? What about “ttf-dejavu”? Should it be called >>> “dejavu-fonts-ttf” then? >> >> Yes, that was a mistake, maybe inspired from the debian package name. >> We should rename it. > > I don't understand why you call it a mistake. It's just a package name > used by some distributions (and I think it's a good name). Is there a > convention to use “…-fonts-ttf” in Guix?
There’s no documented convention (yet), so it’s not a mistake strictly speaking. :-) >>> 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). >> >> Then what if it contains other types of fonts? Texlive-data/texfm-dist/fonts >> contains the following 20 subdirectories: >> afm cmap fea map ofm ovf pfm sfd tfm type1 >> cid enc lig misc opentype ovp pk source truetype vf >> (not all of them are fonts, some are just metrics and some I do not know). >> Would you suggest to use prefixes type1-, opentype-, pk- also? >> Only if the package contains exactly one format? I think modifying our >> package name rules for fonts will open a can of worms. > > I think they should be called “texlive-…”. > > What I see in "Arch Linux" is a lot of “ttf-…” packages (including > “ttf-liberation” and “ttf-dejavu”). IIUC Debian uses the same names for > TrueType fonts. And I like it. But anyway, if “liberation-fonts-ttf” > is the prefered variant, I'll fix my patch. But I think “ttf-dejavu” > should be renamed into “dejavu-fonts-ttf” at first. And what about > “freefont-ttf” and “ttf-bitstream-vera”? I think we must settle on a convention, and I would personally prefer to follow the principle of least surprise–i.e., choose a convention that is already widespread elsewhere. WDYT? Ludo’.
