On 2020/05/23 02:44, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > Hi, > > Installing TrueType and OpenType fonts from packages provides concrete > benefit to the user: fonts are installed to a directory that desktop > programs pick up automatically, and updating the package updates the > font files automatically (as opposed to, say, storing them under ~/.fonts). > > Formats like .woff and .woff2, which are meant to be served over > the web, don't benefit in the same way, because they're installed to > /usr/local/share and need to be copied to a web server directory > to be of any use. Hard links don't help since /var is typically on > a separate partition; soft links don't help since most OpenBSD > webservers are chrooted by default. And since the files are copied, > they don't get updated automatically by pkg_add. > > A few recent port submissions were asked to remove web fonts before > import. That makes sense. We should do the same for existing ports.
Thanks for doing this, I agree. OK with me.
