Does anybody have an explanation as to why unifont is not packaged for centos stream-10 or epel10?
This is not a request to have it packaged.
Maybe it would just be better to install
google-noto-*-vf-fonts
but I am a curious one.
The content set for RHEL (which is determined by Red Hat) determines what goes into CentOS. This will intentionally be a rather limited set of packages. This is why EPEL exists, to provide additional packages that aren’t included in the base operating system. EPEL is opt-in for Fedora maintainers, so most packages won’t exist there until someone requests them. I know you said this post isn’t a request, but if you did want to file a requests we have a guide for that.
Thanks for the explanation as keeping in mind the source of content inclusion decisions is helpful.
The google-noto fonts are in appstream and will suffice. Seems a resonable choice by Red Hat as unifont, though quite complete, are not necessarily pretty and using google-noto packages give finer grain installation choices.
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