On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 3:45 AM, Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Miner wrote: >> An interesting set of options, I'm open to any of them and we can figure >> out how to test some of them out. My main observation is that we appear >> to be shipping a lot more fonts (not all of which come from >> FSWxorg-fonts, I'm sure) than either of the Linux distros examined >> (xlsfonts reports around 5200 for OpenSolaris, 2600-3000 for them, >> corresponding file system area on Ubuntu is about 40% smaller). Can we >> remove some with minimal impact on user experience? I'm not the expert >> here, so you guys tell me what makes the most sense. > > We can probably whittle down the set quite a bit if someone has time > to go through them. In Solaris, where the fonts are split into a > bunch of smaller packages, only a few of those packages are in the > miniroot used during install - certainly we don't plan to keep having > a single jumbo font package forever, it was just an expedient Moinak > did to get the LiveCD up and going that I've not had time to split into > more logical package boundaries (mostly because I want to make it go > away completely by getting back to the Solaris font packages, and then > refactoring those as previously discussed, but haven't had time for those > either).
This is something I can take a look at. Regards, Moinak. > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering > > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
