Description of problem: F28 Beta Live images increased about 300MB in size due to the large number of variants of the new Noto CJK font families. Can we subpackage out the variants other than Regular to make the default installs back to the same size as F27?
Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-27-1.6.iso 1.5G Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-28_Beta-1.3.iso 1.8G
proposed on the list to move extra variants into the sub-package. estimation: font sizes for CJK fonts installed by default on f27: $ rpm -qlva vlgothic-fonts naver-nanum-gothic-fonts adobe-source-han-*-{cn,tw}-fonts | grep -E 'ttf|otf'|awk 'BEGIN{a=0}{a+=$5}END{print a}' 235970044 font sizes for CJK on f28 so far: $ rpm -qlva google-noto-*-{jp,kr,tc,sc}-fonts | awk 'BEGIN{a=0}{a+=$5}END{print a}' 508140498 Proposed workaround - font sizes for CJK fonts with Regular only on f28: $ rpm -qlva google-noto-*-{jp,kr,tc,sc}-fonts | grep Regular | awk 'BEGIN{a=0}{a+=$5}END{print a}' 119507812 another - font sizes for CJK fonts with Regular and Bold only on f28: $ rpm -qlva google-noto-*-{jp,kr,tc,sc}-fonts | grep -E 'Regular|\-Bold\.' | awk 'BEGIN{a=0}{a+=$5}END{print a}' 243328916
another proposal to replace with ttc: $ rpm -qlva google-noto-*-cjk-ttc-fonts | grep ttc | awk 'BEGIN{a=0}{a+=$5}END{print a}' 298130189 No regressions will be made from the POV of typefaces availability but will saves about 210MB.
See also https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/46
Probably variable fonts will be a better solution when they become available.