Oy. Debian's ticketing system is the most archaic and arcane I've seen in the past 20 years. But after jumping through the hoops several times, here it is, (along with my email in clear for all to spam) -
https://bugs.debian.org/983291 ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #983291 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=983291 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to fonts-noto in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916319 Title: Excessive number of disparate fonts bundled together Status in fonts-noto package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: The package `fonts-noto-core` contains 150+ highly exotic fonts, including cuneiform and hieroglyphics. These are high-quality but for all practical intents and purposes, never needed all at once, not even by a PhD in linguistics. 99%+ of the users will need only one language out of those. This sheer number of fonts clutters font selectors in applications, causing some to freeze[1], and the users to waste time hunting for the fonts they actually care about. Removing these fonts is an option, but it unnecessarily wastes the time of most users[2] (who use English[3]), is in some cases impossible[4], and far from simple. The question of how to remove unwanted fonts in Ubuntu has come again and again: * https://superuser.com/questions/248844/how-do-you-remove-fonts-from-ubuntu * https://askubuntu.com/questions/820746/remove-unused-fonts * https://askubuntu.com/questions/371213/how-to-delete-fonts-in-ubuntu * https://askubuntu.com/questions/1239037/removing-all-unnecessary-fonts-from-system * https://askubuntu.com/questions/978995/is-there-a-simple-way-for-uninstalling-fonts * https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=259109 * https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=297573 * https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=279672 * https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=339442 * https://askubuntu.com/questions/214950/how-can-i-remove-fonts-that-i-never-use-from-libreoffice-and-linux-in-general Removing some font packages solves part of the problem, but since `fonts-noto-core` bundles so many fonts together, users have no way of removing unwanted fonts from it. Can this package be broken up? An easy option, which I believe would cover 80% of the cases with far less than 20% of the effort, would be Latin vs. non-Latin. [1]: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php/77868-How-can-we-reduce-the-crapton-of-fonts-installed-by-default [2]: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/excessive-fonts-installed-by-default/20924/5?u=dandv [3]: https://ubuntu.com/desktop/statistics [4]: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433215 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonts-noto/+bug/1916319/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
