define-public fontconfig vs. fontconfig-minimal as its name

(define-public fontconfig

[...]

(name "fontconfig-minimal")

this tripped me up. is this a mistake?

if not, then please add a comment that explains this anomaly.

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Hi,

Attila Lendvai <attila@lendvai.name> writes:

There's already a comment above fontconfig-with-documentation that

reads:

This is intentionally named 'fontconfig', as it's intended as the

user-facing fontconfig package

The original fontconfig was renamed fontconfig-minimal but the variable

was not renamed to avoid having to adjust the rest of the code base. It

could be done, and then the fontconfig-with-documentation *variable*

could be renamed to simply fontconfig.

That'd be more conventional.

Would you like to give it a try? It shouldn't cause any rebuild, I

think.

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close 61292

stop

i started doing the rename of the variable, but the change quickly grew extensive, so i gave up. it's probably not worth the trouble.

there are 332 grep matches, and the majority requries a change.

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