naming scheme for fonts packages?

Ralf Ertzinger fedora at camperquake.de
Fri Mar 9 11:55:17 UTC 2007


Hi.

On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:20:44 +1000, Jens Petersen wrote:

> The latter seems semantically more logical, the former more 
> syntactically consistent.  It is easy to search for /most/ fonts 
> packages now with "rpm -qa '*fonts*'", but on the other hand it is a
> bit strange to call something *-fonts if it only contains a single
> font?  So which gives? :)

Call it fonts. It makes life easier for those who know how to use
command line tools like that, those who do not probably do not care one
way or the other anyway.




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