On 5/24/22 1:28 PM, home user wrote:
On 5/23/22 10:09 PM, Tim via users wrote:
On Mon, 2022-05-23 at 14:05 -0600, home user wrote:
are some fonts actually on my work station twice?
That can happen. Different things may provide those fonts.
[tim@rocky ~]$ locate NimbusMonoPS-Bold
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/NimbusMonoPS-Bold.afm
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/NimbusMonoPS-Bold.otf
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/NimbusMonoPS-Bold.t1
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/NimbusMonoPS-BoldItalic.afm
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/NimbusMonoPS-BoldItalic.otf
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/NimbusMonoPS-BoldItalic.t1
/usr/share/ghostscript/Resource/Font/NimbusMonoPS-Bold
/usr/share/ghostscript/Resource/Font/NimbusMonoPS-BoldItalic
[... snip ...]
This has me believing that we need (changes to?) policies and standards.
Those "different things" should not add a font unless...
1. the font is not already installed;
.OR.
2. the font already on the system is a proper subset of the font that
the "different thing" wants to install;
.OR.
3. the font that the "different thing" wants to install is fixing glyphs
documented as broken in the font already on the system.
If #2 and/or #3 is the case, then the "different thing" should not
replace the old version of the font with its version unless the
sys.admin. clearly, specifically, directly approves.
Question:
How do I propose/submit a policy addition or change? (presumably not by
submitting a bug!)
George's later post to this thread:
"Unfortunately, widely used open source fonts often get multiple forks
[etc.]"
has me realizing that the possibility of multiple-branch forks in fonts
could happen. So my 1 .OR. 2 .OR. 3 above is too simple. For this
branch of this thread, I'm now out of good ideas.
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