According to https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-cjk/blob/32a5844539f2e348ed36b44e990f9b06d7fb89fe/README.formats noto-cjk is released in 4 different formats, each complete and independent from the other: * Super OTC * OTC * Multilingual OTF * Region-specific OTF As of =media-fonts/noto-cjk-20170602 all 4 formats gets installed together, resulting in a huge waste of storage: 1,8G /usr/share/fonts/noto-cjk/ According to the README again, the Super OTC format is the smallest one if you want *every* font weight, however the only *mandatory* ones are Regular and Bold. Thus I believe the OTC format is the one that offers the best balance between installed size and modularity: OTC (Regular and Bold only) 88M /usr/share/fonts/noto-cjk/ OTC (all font weights, very similar in size to Super OTC) 295M /usr/share/fonts/noto-cjk/ Using one of the OTF format is also an option, specifically to let users install only the needed language variants, however I did not test this. Regardless of the format chosen, there is no point in installing all 4 versions.
Created attachment 578146 [details] noto-cjk-20190409.ebuild I'm also attaching an ebuild for testing purpose. It's based on 20190409 (it was more convenient for me), uses OTC format and has a USE="extra" to toggle installation of all font weights.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=0309036cf96fcfa2be45af2f9795ae2dc747949d commit 0309036cf96fcfa2be45af2f9795ae2dc747949d Author: Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-06-02 09:28:06 +0000 Commit: Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-06-02 09:28:06 +0000 media-fonts/noto-cjk: Version bump Also install only .ttc as ArchLinux does as a good compromise between space usage and provide all fonts (#687076) Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/687076 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/687094 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.67, Repoman-2.3.13 Signed-off-by: Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> media-fonts/noto-cjk/Manifest | 1 + media-fonts/noto-cjk/noto-cjk-20190416.ebuild | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)