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.

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