[Pkg-fonts-devel] Q: web-font directory -> /usr/share/fonts/web-fonts ?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Hideki,

Quoting Hideki Yamane (2015-08-20 10:50:45)
> Now I'm working on GitHub's ocition package, icon svg files and font 
> files (as attached, sorry).
>
> And, then I wonder where should we put "web font" to? Probably we 
> don't have any policy for it. So, /usr/share/fonts/web-fonts or 
> something is good for it, IMHO.
>
> Please tell your opition.

Thanks for raising this issue!

The subdir names we currently use all reflect the actual format, so I 
prefer that we do same for SVG-based fonts.  Therefore I propose this 
path:

    /usr/share/fonts/svg/

Seems that is also current practice:

$ apt-file -x search '/usr/share/fonts/.*\.svg$'
fonts-entypo: /usr/share/fonts/svg/fonts-entypo/entypo.svg
fonts-fantasque-sans: /usr/share/fonts/svg/fantasque-sans/FantasqueSans.svg
fonts-fantasque-sans: /usr/share/fonts/svg/fantasque-sans/FantasqueSansMono-Bold.svg
fonts-fantasque-sans: /usr/share/fonts/svg/fantasque-sans/FantasqueSansMono-BoldItalic.svg
fonts-fantasque-sans: /usr/share/fonts/svg/fantasque-sans/FantasqueSansMono-RegItalic.svg
fonts-fantasque-sans: /usr/share/fonts/svg/fantasque-sans/FantasqueSansMono-Regular.svg
fonts-font-awesome: /usr/share/fonts/svg/font-awesome/fontawesome-webfont.svg


...but also seems we then should help others align with us:

$ apt-file -x search '/fonts/.*\.svg$'
[ too much to show here - but clearly a mess :-( ]


 - Jonas

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