It has been the goal of this distro for quite some time now to keep the repos at around 200-2200 packages, that makes for a very workable state.
After the kf5 move a major cleanup of all repos has taken place, removing broken packages no longer maintained by upstream, obsolete depends cleaned out, packages that were replaced deleted. That reduced the repos a decent amount. Bigger change though has been ongoing work to simplify builds. Don't split packages were the users then ends up having to search what all is exactly needed form the many split components to get a fully functional setup for their needs. Example is php, it used to be 20 tiny packages and when you were trying to setup for php, you had to start hunting for what you really needed to get all parts working. No more, php is one package now, one install will get you all the needed functions. This has has been done for a dozen more apps and that has reduced the size of the repos to under 2000.
This has created room to add packages that have been requested here or have been getting votes in KCP.
Font packages added are ttf-ms-fonts & cantarel-fonts from KCP, and a very large and complete font package ttf-google-fonts is also new.
For music creators, musescore has been redone, it basically is now 3 packages in one and makes all the unique music fonts that musescore includes in their source available system-wide (as opposed to only available in the musescore app)
Example of using mscore fonts in lilypond:
and same piece in musescore (credit to cellix for these scores):
A start is also made to add all needed aspell & hunspell packages, goal is that any KaOS user can use these spellchecking & dictionaries in their native/needed language.
If your language is not added yet, please note it here, it will be included asap.
List of added aspell/hunspell locales the last few days includes cs, de, el, es, fr, gu, hi, hu, it & ru
