On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:00:40PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > I have two comments about the X font policy. > > This is an excerpt from the policy: > > 5. Subdirectories of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ other than those > listed above should be neither created nor used. (The PEX and > cyrillic directories are excepted for historical reasons, but > installation of files into these directories remains > discouraged.) > > In the recent proposal for policy change made by Branden Robinson, the > word `should' is replaced by `must'. > > The policy says nothing about TrueType fonts and TrueType > subdirectory. That's deliberate. However, all is not lost. > The packages sharefont and freefont (they contain non-free fonts) > place the fonts in sharefont and freefont subdirectories. I think > that there is good reason about this -- we don't want to make these > fonts available to the font server by default. Isn't it better if > each package with non-free fonts installs them in its own subdirectory > of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts? No. You'll note that: 1) Say you have truetype fonts in a directory called /usr/share/fonts/TrueType; you can just add this directory to the "Files" section of your XF86Config. In fact, once we have a policy on TrueType fonts, I'll modify dexconf to put such a directory into auto-generated XF86Config files by default, and tell xfs something similar. 2) The policy does not forbid putting *symlinks* under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/. TrueType fonts (and, to a lesser extent, Type1 fonts) have broader application than just being rasterized by the X Window System. It's more FHS-friendly to put them somewhere under /usr/share, and more logical for programs other than X font rasterizers. Say, a program like ghostscript, or a print spooler that uploads fonts to a PostScript printer. [snip modifications which refer to locations for "free" fonts] > Of cource this is not an official proposal for policy change, but only > a question. I don't believe that different policies should apply to fonts that are not DFSG-free, just because they are not DFSG-free. If you need me to elaborate, I can. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | // // // / / branden@debian.org | EI 'AANIIGOO 'AHOOT'E http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |
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