On Yaum al-Jumma 21 Jumaada al-Awal 1425 11:27 pm, Mohammed Elzubeir wrote: > On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 21:12, Sherif Abdelgawad wrote: > > I agree with ElZubeir. For Fedora there is already "fonts-arabic" > > RPM which has the KCAST fonts. I belive we should submite Arabeyes > > fonts to be included as well, maybe "arabic-fonts" should have > > both. I updated the bugzilla to see if Owen can review arabeyes > > fonts so it can be included in the package. > > Not unless you want arabic-fonts to be a meta-package which includes > both packages. However, since both are their own packages and both are > released separately it would be a maintenance nightmare to do both in > one rpm package. I suggest arabic-fonts package is renamed to ttf-kacst > and the Arabeyes font to ttf-arabeyes (or however RH/Fedora likes to > call ttf font packages). I'm not sure if RH/Fedora have the concept of > meta packages, but if they do, it would be nice to then have an > 'arabic-fonts' meta package.
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 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 - Added Arabeyes GPL Fonts - Added farsifonts version 0.4 GPL fonts (covering Arabic and Farsi) 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. For Mandrake I suggest fonts-arabic-kacst fonts-arabic-arabeyes fonts-arabic-farsi fonts-arabic-nastaliq I am not sure if the farsi people can take this nastaliq in their package and update it with their fonts. Its development seems to be stopped. My problem with Mandrake is that my club membership is going to vanish in the comming day which will stop my ability to vote for software inclusion :( Another important topic is making these rpms relocatable so one SRPMS will be enough to Mandrake, RedHat, SuSE, ... Sherif, I don't have access to Fedora nowadays, would you please test my srpms in fedora or tell me whether there is any problem in expanding it to /usr/share/fonts/ttf/arabic/? This is not to say that one of us will package for both. Still I will package for Mandrake and you for Fedora but from a single source. Note: Oops my internet connection has expired so I will to tomorrow to send it inshallah :( -- Munzir Taha PGP Key available gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.mandrakesecure.net F0671821 Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer Linux Registered User #279362 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Club member Maintainer of the Open Arabic Bugs Project at http://wiki.arabeyes.org/OpenBugs CIW Designer, ICDL, MOUS New Horizons CLC Riyadh, SA _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
