https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1307238
--- Comment #14 from Alexander Ploumistos alex.ploumistos@gmail.com --- (In reply to Nicolas Mailhot from comment #11)
metapackages are a convenience and one's convenience is another's annoyance. If you do that you *must* make sure the individual font packages can still be installed separately without dragging in other stuff some users do not need.
The Fedora fonts packaging policy is explicitly designed to permit fine-grained font installation, without locking users in specific font groups, to let users choose fonts on their individual merits. The font package naming already makes it easy to identify fonts of the same origin. A metapackage does not add a lot except hardwiring someone's preferencies.
In all honesty, I'm not particularly anxious to create that metapackage. I thought that since Mr. Douros considers these fonts as a set, there might be others who would too. I'm actually happy to lay that thought to rest.
Just out of curiosity though, how would such a metapackage complicate things? Wouldn't it work like the libreoffice metapackage which doesn't have to be installed in order to get some features of the suite?