I will *not* split the packaging of Noto fonts to optimize specifically
for Western society (i.e. Latin + Musical notes + emojis + math bundle).

While this for sure sounds noble at first sight, it's also just as questionable.

I think it's safe to say that the Latin+Greek+Cyrillic variants of Noto Sans and Serif (i.e. those without a suffix) are considered as general purpose fonts and *all the others* which carry a specific suffix in their names are considered as special cases.

I think splitting up the general purpose fonts from the specialized rest is *at least* the one split that can be asked from this package. Splitting the more specialized fonts up by "writing system" or whatever may be left as an exercise. Apparently these splits aren't as "easy" or unambigious as the aforementioned one, because literally nothing has been undertaken in this regard since at least two years now.

It seems that this is another case where the perfect (split up by writing system) is the enemy of the good (split up only the LGC fonts). Seriously, we need a fonts-noto-latin or similar package, thanks!

 - Fabian

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