Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 09:16:03 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11-fonts Makefile ports/x11-fonts/indic-ttf Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/x11-fonts/indic-ttf/files pkg-message.in Message-ID: <20080404091602.GC11845@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20080403172652.GF86097@graf.pompo.net> References: <200804021938.m32Jcd9J053756@repoman.freebsd.org> <20080403055949.GA4698@FreeBSD.org> <20080403083150.u56fa0rt44804c48@graf.pompo.net> <20080403172652.GF86097@graf.pompo.net>
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On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 07:26:52PM +0200, Thierry Thomas wrote: > Le Jeu 3 avr 08 ? 8:31:50 +0200, Thierry Thomas <thierry@FreeBSD.org> > ?crivaitš: > > > >It seems that we already have `x11-fonts/fonts-indic' port; maybe these > > >two can be merged, no? > > > > These two projects seem different, but thanks for the notice: I'll ask > > the maintainer about it. > > According to the maintainer, the principal differences are: > > 1) The source from Debian (x11-fonts/indic-ttf) is a more complex set > of font families, where the source from Gentoo (x11-fonts/fonts-indic) > contains only the Lohit family (and not every people love it ;-) ). > > 2) The Lohit subset family from Debian hasn't the support for the Malayalam > language, until now, because for an old problem it doesn't work very well > with the actual rendering engine, where the source from Gentoo has, in any > way. > > 3) The fonts from Debian (x11-fonts/indic-ttf) are from the Debian unstable > and are more updated than ones from Gentoo (x11-fonts/fonts-indic), that > are from the Gentoo stable. > In fact the real modification date of the fonts of the former is > ~ Sun May 6 13:0:0 2007, where the real modification date of the fonts > of the later is >= 2004, <= January 2007 and , in the Gentoo source, > only the Lohit Malayalam support has a real modification date of > January 2008. > > With regards to these explanations, I think that it's better to keep > these two separate ports. Fair enough; all I can add is that bringing the above explanation (probably in its refined and shortened form) to pkg-descr/pkg-message of either or both ports (or even as a Makefile comment) might be a good idea. ./danfe
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