Bug#1051314: fonts-recommended: recognise noto-core as alternative to dejavu-core

[Justin Rye <justin.byam.rye@gmail.com>]

Adam Borowski wrote:

Alas, noto has the downside of making font pickers next to useless, as
it declares every single of languages it supports as a separate font family.
So instead off just "Noto Sans" "Noto Mono" "Noto Slightly Serifed", you
have "Noto Western Klingon" "Noto Eastern Klingon" and so on, making the
list of available fonts one big noto fest.

Ah, okay.  I don't tend to encounter font pickers, so I hadn't noticed.

 

Given that you can install Noto yourself if that is your choice, removing
any need for this metapackage, I don't quite see the point of declaring
an alternative.

The point would just be that I keep track of the packages I've installed manually, and the fewer there are the easier that is.  Still, I've always got the option of reducing that list to a single personal metapackage via equivs.

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JBR

with apologies for the formatting - I'm away from my usual keyboard