Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] how to postinst fonts these days?
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 7:21 PM, martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> wrote:
> Is defoma still needed? And how does fontconfig come in, which is
> recommended by our package as an alternative to x-ttcidfont-conf
As of May 2007 it was/is still needed for legacy X, GTK1 and QT apps.
Apparently it was/is also used to register fonts for ghostscript. Once
these go away or can use fontconfig, defoma can go away. Not sure if
that has happened yet. Some mails on the topic:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fonts-devel/2007-May/000462.html
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fonts-devel/2007-May/000472.html
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fonts-devel/2007-May/000476.html
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fonts-devel/2007-May/000478.html
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fonts-devel/2007-May/000453.html
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fonts-devel/2007-May/000459.html
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fonts-devel/2007-May/000460.html
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fonts-devel/2007-May/000475.html
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bye,
pabs
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