Subject: Re: [bug#28404] The complete Google Noto Fonts

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 10:27:54 +0200

Hi ng0,

ng0 <[email-masked]> skribis:

> These patches add all of Google Noto font.
>
> Be aware that you will need at least 600 MB for the source tarballs.
> There are only 5 real big tarballs, the rest is small.
>
> You will have 86 or 87 patches, so if you want to test it in another
> way try adding my guix developer repository at
> https://gitweb.krosos.org/ng0_guix/guix if I fixed it
> (otherwise git://git.krosos.org/srv/git/ng0/ng0_guix/guix works).

Woow, impressive piece of work!

> The only things which really are unique are:
> filenames + name + variable name + hash

To me, that clearly suggests that we need a function to produce the
package, like:

  (define (google-noto-font-package name hash)
    (package
      (name (string-append "font-google-" (camel-case->hyphens name)))
      …))

Could you look into that?

> As Google (and 99% of all fonts out there) update in place,
> I have a versioned inofficial mirror directory in case we
> should ever want to use it.

That’s a bummer.  Are you sure there’s no versioned URL somewhere?

Alternatively, could we build from source with FontForge or something?
An example of that is ‘font-linuxlibertine’.

Thanks,
Ludo’.