Bug#686098: Acknowledgement (After wheezy, please add symlinks to make the OTF variant available under /u/s/fonts and thus for fontconfig)

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Maybe it's an even better idea to make *only* the opentype variant
> available for fontconfig *instead* of the type1 variant.

Is that a good idea? The fonts will not be available to not
fontconfig using programs - or am I wrong?
A typical xterm, would that run with it? 

Maybe nowadays it is uncommon to use programs that do not
use fontconfig, but I want to check back.

Any opinion here by anyone?

Best wishes

Norbert

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