New comment by chrysos349 on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/46118#issuecomment-1724629725

Comment:
I included INSTALL.msg to the affected packages to explain the change.

@cinerea0 

> This is a bad idea:

making this bloated package a part of the official repo WAS a bad idea. replacing it with a leaner version which includes only unique glyphs (as per package requirements concerning fonts) IS NOT!

> 1\. This completely removes the OTF fonts.

so what? the fonts can be downloaded manually.

> 2\. There are 17 font families that are only packaged as their nerd-font patched variants.

do you mean the fonts with included nerd symbols and changed names? it doesn't matter. again, they fonts can be downloaded manually.

> 2\. This change would remove them from users systems with no alternative except to manually install them.

the previous commits would. this one would leave all the fonts in `/usr/share/fonts/NerdFonts`, thanks to @classabbyamp 's suggestion.

> 3\. This breaks things for people who use the fonts by their full name.

again, it won't. the only change is the fonts won't be updated anymore. they'll be left intact in the system dir.

> 4\. Even in situations where the "base" font is separately available, it doesn't seem to fallback properly.

people can download the full versions of fonts themselves.