Munzir Taha wrote: > Well, your suggestion of package separation is logic and I loved it but keep > in mind something is better than nothing, I will send the mandrake list to And something good is better than "something" ;) > ask if they will allow two or three arabic font packages in their distro main > CD's. If they don't deny it I will make the separation. Otherwise, Mandrake > already have a fonts-ttf-arabic that contains KACST and Urdu Nastaliq in > _one_ package. I just updated it and > Well, frankly, KACST fonts are not sufficient, so I'm sure they will accept. > - Added Arabeyes GPL Fonts > - Added farsifonts version 0.4 GPL fonts (covering Arabic and Farsi) > I'm not sure having such a huge font package is a good thing either. With every different one having its own release time. If you will be maintaining this, I suggest you always look for what makes your life easier. > Regarding the names I prefer a one that goes a long distros naming scheme. > Mandrake uses fonts-ttf-language where as debian uses xfonts-... and not sure > about Fedora. So, may be it's better to go with distro's naming scheme rather > than a unified one. I think you are probably right on this one. > > [..] > > > Another important topic is making these rpms relocatable so one SRPMS will be > enough to Mandrake, RedHat, SuSE, ... > From what I understood from Sherif, there are a few distro specific things (at least for the Fedora packages -- he even suggested the detection of the distro before installation. > > [..] > Regards, Mohammed Elzubeir
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