Font packages

[Owen Taylor]

On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 02:13 -0400, Kevin E Martin wrote:
> I've been working through the fonts today, and there are several methods
> that could be used to package them:
> 
> 1. Create packages similar to the ones in the monolithic tree (100dpi,
>    75dpi, misc, cyrillic, ...)
> 2. Create packages per family (charter, courier, helvetica, ...)
> 3. Create packages per foundry (Adobe, B&H, Bitstream, ...)
> 4. Create packages using some combination of these options
> 
> I'm leaning toward using a combination (e.g., font-adobe-courier-75dpi,
> font-bitstream-charter-100dpi, etc.) it would give our users the
> clearest indication of exactly what's contained within the package and
> it allows more fonts to be added to the font module without conflating
> the official XOF packages.  This breakdown also has a nice side effect
> of not having to deal with multiple font licenses in the same package.
> I'll go ahead with this scheme unless someone comes up with a better way
> to group fonts.

I'd suggest throwing the bitmap fonts into as big chunks as possible ...
it's just not worth the time to manage lots of subpackages for this
legacy stuff. 75dpi, 100dpi, misc is the traditional division and
should be fine.

Regards,
						Owen

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