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

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