Splitting off Feta

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> I think better separating the font stuff from the main
> distribution would have the following advantages:
> 
> 1. Tracking LilyPond development would be easier for the
>    non-uber-hackers due to
>     a) shorter build times and

Are you using potrace? It is a lot faster than autotrace.

If you are desparate, try

   make -C mf get-pfa

it will download the PFAs from the lilypond.org site.

> 4. Storing packages for various architectures would require
>    much less storage space in the distribution archives and
>    their mirrors (this issue has already been raised by
>    Debian, which hosts the most architectures AFAIK.  The
>    lilypond-doc package also goes in this direction.)

You're encouraged to make a noarch package of the docs; I couldn't get
RPM to do it, though.

> 2. Are you willing to move them in a separate repository and
>    issue separate release notes?
> 3. Have you got a better idea how this should be done instead?

No, no.

> 4. Can you think of any related issues?

Yes: it will cause dependency problems and spurious bugreports. I
think it's a bad idea.

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