On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 3:45 AM, Alan Coopersmith
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> 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.

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