[systemd-devel] [RFC 05/12] gfx: add sd-gfx library with unifont section

[David Herrmann]

Hi

On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
<zbyszek at in.waw.pl> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 03:32:14PM +0100, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 10:05:49AM +0100, David Herrmann wrote:
>> > On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 6:28 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
>> > > Also, if the font was embedded in systemd, distributions would then
>> > > remove it in order to replace is with the system version. So I think
>> > > that including the font sources is pointless... Debian has it packaged [1],
>> > > but an old version, I'm not sure if there have been recent updates, and
>> > > possibly in the wrong format. Fedora doesn't seem to have it yet.
>> > > But adding fonts is easy, I'd do the Fedora package myself, and other
>> > > distributions could surely add/update it.
>> >
>> > I'm fine with installing the file into the system, but I doubt we win
>> > much. It's meant as fallback for early-boot, initrd and so on. If we
>> > keep it separate, we must make sure to include it in any systems we
>> > build (initrd, containers, vms, ..). So if there's no reason beside
>> > license issues, I'd like to keep it built-in.
>> There's no reason beside license issues.
> Ooops, I was too fast here - there's also the issue of distributions
> wanting to avoid duplicated sources, whether it be source code or
> fonts or anything else.
>
> I think that there's little point to explore alternative solutions and
> wasting more time on this. I'm now pretty sure that assuming that
> unifont.hex is available as a compilation time dependency and
> transforming it and including in the systemd-gfx binary is the proper
> thing to do.

Thanks for the comments. I agree that link-time inclusion works best.
I also sent an email to the unifoundry-developers. I hope they can
give a clear statement. But the least we can do is let them know that
we're unsure.

Thanks
David