3rd Party Page Deprecation of a non-binary Program Question

brent

Simple scenario, just want to know what to be prepared for.
When you shut down 3P that's the end ofms core fonts. I need them for work and any future solus install.
They don't exist as a flatpak.
Question 1: what are my options?

Question 2. If I keep Solus on my HDD another 5 years, and the 3P page is long gone...I can just keep this functioning ms font package on? no harm, no foul, no update, no danger, no repercussion or unintended consequences because I have an installed packaged that is no longer available?

thanks for any flashlight🙂

EDIT: I mean in theory I have in my possession the solus ms core fonts eopkg..I can back that up and use eopkg to reinstall it in any Solus install right? Untileopkg disappears..😉

Staudey

Yeah, as of yet it's unclear (AFAIK) what the best way to deal with stuff like the mscorefonts package is. This is certainly on the team's radar though (see e.g. this issue on the 3rd-party-repo).

Whether or not you can continue using the old package also depends on how exactly the Third Party packages will be converted/deprecated/etc. in the end (again, as of yet unclear AFAIK). For the foreseeable future it will of course continue to work, but a huge change to the packaging system like e.g. the eventual move to moss is very likely to impact that (but by then it will also have the ability to at least provide a Third Party-equivalent mechanism to keep it alive, I would think).

So it all depends on some decisions that have yet to be made. (possible that the team has already discussed more on the topic in the staff chats)

brent

Staudey
wait, what, no ETA?
what's Moss?
jk
OK-thanks for getting back. the solus community are going to cross a lot of bridges together soon and I'm psyched, seat-belts on and chair in the locked upright position🙂. thanks staudey

riffer

Dumb question, but can you just copy the folder from usr/share/fonts and them copy it back on a new install? Works with themes and icons. I just have no idea if it works with fonts.

brent

riffer Dumb question, but can you just copy the folder from usr/share/fonts and them copy it back on a new install? Works with themes and icons. I just have no idea if it works with fonts.

I alluded to that in my original edit. I think it's feasible, good idea.

Harvey You do not even have to install them system wide. You should be able to just copy the .ttf files from the package to ~/.fonts/

and that is confirmation!

Axios I have started transition some stuff to flatpak that I think needs be nothing
scientific gives me time to see how it works out.
And its a ever changing experiment and with warehouse I can manage them easily.
But I totally over looked Fonts.

I can live with being half immutable in the future but totally immutable instinctually feels wrong on every level to me, especially for linux. That said, I'm glad I have some flatpak apps--none have ever bit me. Less fuss than an appimage.

thanks for the replies.

Axios

I have started transition some stuff to flatpak that I think needs be nothing
scientific gives me time to see how it works out.
And its a ever changing experiment and with warehouse I can manage them easily.
But I totally over looked Fonts.
interesting.

Harvey

You do not even have to install them system wide. You should be able to just copy the .ttf files from the package to ~/.fonts/