[haiku-development] Re: What is going on with the default font?
- From: Augustin Cavalier <waddlesplash@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 17:37:41 -0500
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 4:10 PM, John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I feel that the fonts and cal are fine as packages, but they should be
> included in the default image. The VL-Gothic font may be a decent
> fallback for most uses but it surprised me.
>
+1.
> I believe if I had downloaded a nightly image or a release built the
> font would show up but I built from source.
>
Yes. But we aren't trying to focus on working updates (yet), we can start
doing that once we get everything outsourced. The DejaVu fonts aren't
required, and could be uninstalled by a user who had picked different ones.
> Also, why can't we get bsd cal as a package (or whatever we were using
> before) instead of gcal?
>
gcal supports non-English month names better, I think.
> Also, why can't we include man pages in the default image as well? At
> least for the built-in commands. We would also have to install the man
> package, which seems like it wouldn't be too much.
>
Whatever manpages aren't included is a bug AFAIK (the coreutils ones, for
example). Coreutils itself can be outsourced as soon as someone writes a
bootstrap recipe for it and uploads packages for all primary architectures.
I think.
-Augustin
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