Re: Bug#540362: O: xfs -- X font server

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 03:06:57AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:22:05PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 03:58:50PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > > The X Strike Force would like to get rid of xfs; it's not needed in most
> > > (all?) use cases, since most X clients now use Xft and/or pango to
> > > render text, not core X fonts (even emacs, these days! :))
> > > 
> > > So xfs wants to either get removed or get a new maintainer.  Maybe LTSP
> > > people, if they still use this?
> > 
> > Adding LTSP maintainers to CC; is xfs (the font server, not the
> > filesystem) still in use in LTSP? 
> 
> LTSP works fine without XFS.
> 
> I think debian-edu may still be using it, as it's recommended in 
> education-thin-client-server. no idea if it's actually used.

Debian Edu people, can you comment on this?

Cheers,
        Moritz