High number of packages added in 41.20241203.1?

There is as high number of packages (260+) being added to the new 20241203 update which may appear odd at first glance. The majority of new packages are actually just the google-noto-fonts packages which was added in commit 4b7abfb. This can be verified with rpm-ostree status --verbose.

Just figured I’d post this here to help ease concerns of those who notice the high number of new packages being added.

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Yeah sorry about that, didn’t realize it was so epic. We need to do a font overview at some point anyway.

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All good! Never hurts to have many fonts by default.

TBH, I would have never noticed this if I wasn’t looking into someone’s Fedora IoT issue regarding an oddly high number of new packages. The number packages was actually so close to this update I thought it was actually an expected change from upstream at first :laughing:

IMHO, Blufin should ship fonts that work for many languages and not just half baked quickly made fonts for one language e.g. English.