Shipping bigger fonts by default for greater glyph coverage

C. Scott Ananian olpc at cscott.net
Wed Sep 5 21:15:58 EDT 2012


IIRC its only the CJK fonts which really bloat the build.  There's an old
bug in trac which discussed fonts at length; it might be worth digging that
up to ensure we're still covering all the languages we were covering then.
  --scott
On Sep 5, 2012 6:58 PM, "Chris Leonard" <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <mikus at bga.com> wrote:
> > Something to watch out for is the content of /usr/lib/locale.
> >
> > Having been caught several time in the past with "C" as the only language
> > recognized, I now pay attention to the content of that directory.  [For
> > instance, allowing a Fedora "upgrade" of the package 'glibc-common' could
> > add an extra 80 MB into that directory.
> >
> > mikus
>
> That is an interesting and important point.  I wonder if the langpack
> install could be adjusted to bring it's locale with it, if needed?
>
> cjl
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