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a "fonts-recommended" metapackage?



Hi!
It's annoying that every way to install a system makes you end up with a
different set of fonts.  And, that set is often lacking.  Thus, what about
providing a metapackage that gets the user a reasonable set of fonts?

Perhaps not something to put into the installer (yet?) as some people have
weird ideas wrt what makes bloat, but at least starting with a metapackage
the user can add would be nice.

These would be:
* basics ("what on earth is going on, where's font X?")
* compat with other OSes
* near-100% Unicode coverage of acceptable quality
* some fonts just because they're good and the fonts team want them promoted

The first category would be stuff like dejavu (yes, you can end up with it
missing).  Perhaps cantarell which I hate but which some gnomey packages use
without depending (and then look like shit).  Probably noto (see also second
category).

The next would be obviously Windows compatibles: for XP era there's
fonts-liberation, for current MS Office crosextra.  These days, some
webpages/etc also assume anything is Android so noto is also needed.

For the third part, everyone wants symbols to work.  We'd also want emojis,
and coloured fonts are problematic (they don't work in most programs).  As
for proper letters, most of us can read only 1-2 scripts, anything else
being meaningless, but 1. fallbacks tend to look ugly, and 2. you at least
know what language that text is in.  Thus, a single ok font for every script
-- or perhaps two: one proportional one monospaced -- would be enough here,
as long as those fonts are of good enough quality (so no unifont...).

And for the fourth -- well, it's not like any boxes you'd install Debian GUI
on have less than ten gigs of disk space, so there's no reason to be too
thrifty...


Meow!
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