[tlbuild] pruning platforms

[Jonathan Kew]

On 28/5/13 22:08, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:04:16PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
>> We need to save space on the DVD -- turns out that
>> TL+protext+CTAN+MacTeX is bigger than a dual-layer DVD can hold.  We
>> exclude a little more from CTAN every year :).
>
> Too late, but just a thought. While checking what makes up most of my
> TL2013 installation, I noticed that we have now around 550MB taken by
> only two packages of of very bad quality (quite useless IMO) Persian
> fonts; persian-hm-ftx and persian-hm-xbs. Do we really need all these
> fonts on the DVD?
>
> Also, I've also serious doubt about the legality of some of these fonts,
> for example HM FBadr looks like a clone/copy of Badr LT[1],

...with Latin glyphs replaced by Palatino, probably copied from some 
version of Mac OS (it even includes Apple's PUA-encoded corporate logo 
glyph at U+F8FF).

> and that is
> not the only suspicious font in the collection.

Indeed.