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The following table traces font package inclusion history in Fedora:



Fonts packages timeline
Release Packages added Packages dropped Main events
F6
  1. dejavu-lgc-fonts
  2. fonts-kannada
  3. fonts-malayalam
  4. fonts-oriya
  5. fonts-sinhala
  6. fonts-telugu
  7. liberation-fonts
  8. wqy-unibit-fonts
  9. wqy-zenhei-fonts
  1. dejavu-fonts-block
  2. dejavu-fonts-makedefault
  1. DejaVu LGC is added to Fedora Core and made the default. The DejaVu (full) package in Fedora Extras is simplified to just take over if it's installed.
  2. Liberation is added to Fedora.
F7
  1. wqy-bitmap-fonts
  2. wqy-unibit-fonts
  3. wqy-zenhei-fonts

First Core+Extras merged release.

F8
  1. abyssinica-fonts
  2. baekmuk-bdf-fonts
  3. baekmuk-ttf-fonts-batang
  4. baekmuk-ttf-fonts-common
  5. baekmuk-ttf-fonts-dotum
  6. baekmuk-ttf-fonts-gulim
  7. baekmuk-ttf-fonts-hline
  8. cjkunifonts-ukai
  9. cjkunifonts-uming
  10. culmus-fonts
  11. jisksp16-1990-fonts
  12. kacst-fonts
  13. knm_new-fonts
  14. lklug-fonts
  15. lohit-fonts-bengali
  16. lohit-fonts-gujarati
  17. lohit-fonts-hindi
  18. lohit-fonts-kannada
  19. lohit-fonts-malayalam
  20. lohit-fonts-oriya
  21. lohit-fonts-punjabi
  22. lohit-fonts-tamil
  23. lohit-fonts-telugu
  24. madan-fonts
  25. nafees-web-naskh-fonts
  26. paktype-fonts
  27. sazanami-fonts-gothic
  28. sazanami-fonts-mincho
  29. taipeifonts
  30. wqy-bitmap-fonts
  31. wqy-unibit-fonts
  1. xorg-x11-fonts-base

In Fedora 8 fonts for all available languages are now installed by default on the desktop to give good default language coverage.

Most of the fonts in generically named font packages have been moved to their own packages (Baekmuk, Lohit…) to reflect the upstream name and make font choices easier.

The large and necessary F8 package churn thus does not correspond to the inclusion of many new fonts.

Fonts SIG creation late in the Fedora 8 cycle.
F9
  1. edrip-fonts
  2. gfs-artemisia-fonts
  3. gfs-baskerville-fonts
  4. gfs-bodoni-classic-fonts
  5. gfs-bodoni-fonts
  6. gfs-complutum-fonts
  7. gfs-didot-classic-fonts
  8. gfs-didot-fonts
  9. gfs-gazis-fonts
  10. gfs-neohellenic-fonts
  11. gfs-olga-fonts
  12. gfs-porson-fonts
  13. gfs-solomos-fonts
  14. gfs-theokritos-fonts
  15. inconsolata-fonts
  16. samyak-fonts-devanagari
  17. samyak-fonts-gujarati
  18. samyak-fonts-malayalam
  19. samyak-fonts-oriya
  20. samyak-fonts-tamil
  21. sarai-fonts
  22. silkscreen-fonts
  23. smc-fonts-dyuthi
  24. smc-fonts-meera
  25. smc-fonts-rachana
  26. smc-fonts-raghumalayalam
  27. smc-fonts-suruma
  28. stix-fonts
  29. stix-fonts-integrals
  30. stix-fonts-pua
  31. stix-fonts-sizes
  32. stix-fonts-variants
  33. thaifonts-scalable
  34. tiresias-fonts
  35. VLGothic-fonts-proportional
  36. wqy-zenhei-fonts
  37. yanone-kaffeesatz-fonts
  1. hunky-fonts
  2. xorg-x11-fonts-syriac
  3. xorg-x11-fonts-truetype (Luxi)
  • Licensing audit causes some non-modifiable xorg fonts to be removed.
  • The full version of DejaVu is now the distribution main font set.
F10

(as of 2008-07-21)

  1. andika-fonts
  2. asana-math-fonts
  3. brettfont-fonts
  4. ecolier-court-fonts
  5. gfs-ambrosia-fonts
  6. gfs-eustace-fonts
  7. gfs-fleischman-fonts
  8. gfs-jackson-fonts
  9. gfs-nicefore-fonts
  10. icelandic-fonts
  11. japanese-bitmap-fonts (renamed from fonts-japanese)
  12. khmeros-fonts-base
  13. khmeros-fonts-battambang
  14. khmeros-fonts-bokor
  15. khmeros-fonts-handwritten
  16. khmeros-fonts-metalchrieng
  17. khmeros-fonts-muol
  18. khmeros-fonts-siemreap
  19. padauk-fonts
  20. roadstencil-fonts
  1. fonts-bengali
  2. fonts-chinese
  3. fonts-gujarati
  4. fonts-hindi
  5. fonts-kannada
  6. fonts-korean
  7. fonts-malayalam
  8. fonts-oriya
  9. fonts-punjabi
  10. fonts-sinhala
  11. fonts-tamil
  12. fonts-telugu

fonts-script packages are removed. Their content has been migrated to other packages in previous releases, and the compatibility meta-packages are finally dropped.


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