fonts flood Noto Sans

dasPaul · Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2021 8:23 am Post subject: fonts flood Noto Sans

Hi there

I noticed my font list is literally flooded by the font family "Noto".

It doesnt matter where I open a font list (libreOfffice,Gimp,Inkscape) but everywhere the list is flooded by more than
600! "Noto" variants making it very annoying selecting fonts.

If I check font dir it shows:

Gatsby · Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2021 8:33 am Post subject:

As a long time KDE/Plasma user I was annoyed by the fact that media-fonts/noto was a dependence of kde-plasma/plasma-integration. So I put the latter in my local overlay and commented out the dependence on the noto fonts in the RDEPEND section of the ebuild. Et voila... finally dep-cleaned this abomination.

[ebuild N ] media-fonts/noto-20201226::gentoo USE="X -cjk -extra" 882.435 KiB
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dasPaul · Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2021 9:29 am Post subject:

Thank you, did the same. It works now.

BTW. there seems to be some discussion about the noto package here:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/678432
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mike155 · Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2021 11:18 am Post subject:

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21607

Just to pile on alternatives - if you want to have some of Noto, but not all of it, you could use INSTALL_MASK / PKG_INSTALL_MASK to selectively prune its files at install time. Building on mike155's example, I would use (untested):

mike155 · Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2021 3:34 pm Post subject:

Hu, that's also a nice solution - probably better that the solution I posted.

Please note that there was a typo in my post that also escaped into Hu's post. It should be "fonts" instead of "fons". I corrected it in my post. Sorry for that! :oops:

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21607

I edited my post according to mike155's correction. Hopefully that makes my post suitable to use as-is. It remains untested, however.

Section_8 · l33t Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 627

Just to pile on more, this is what I picked up somewhere, a variation on Hu's method, using package.env:

In /etc/portage/package.env:

dmpogo · Advocate Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 3267 Location: Canada

Yep, NOTO are actually pretty good and comprehensive fonts. But it would be great if something was done with font packaging - such that for instance installing the fonts respect the LOCALE settings, and installed among languages only what is needed (or specifically asked for via USE flags)

acidrums4 · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2021 12:15 pm Post subject:

Another way to (not to) deal with them with having to fiddle with Portage stuff or deleting them is via fontconfig.

For example, I created a new config file for them: