Re: font policy
Milan Zamazal writes:
> >>>>> "ME" == Mark Eichin <eichin@cygnus.com> writes:
>
> ME: In that case, do exactly what xfnt100 and the like do, as far as
> ME: rerunning mkfontdir. If you want to avoid dealing with getting the X
> ME: server to find the fonts (as for a game with only a few of them) I'd
> ME: recommend "cheating" and just installing them in
> ME: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc and running mkfontdir like xfnt*.postinst
> ME: and postrm do. Then you don't have to worry about whether or not the
> ME: user is running a font server, for example...
>
> Maybe, but it fails when I need to add font aliases. This is the problem I've
> found: how to modify `fonts.alias' cleanly. I think this is impossible and the
> best is to install such fonts into their own directory.
>
> ME: Otherwise we should probably come up with a font list config file (or
> ME: just use the one in XF86Config, but only if I write a tool to edit the
> ME: lines, don't try to edit them directly...)
>
> Yes, I prefer something like `xfonts-path { --add | --remove }' tool, which
> would edit appropriate config files and restart appropriate daemons.
But it should IMHO be able to handle `xfs' configuration as well. See
issues in my previous mail in debian-devel ("problem with font policy"
thread). Should I repost it to debian-policy ?
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