fonts policy
I am just trying to understand the mysteries of "fonts on Debian".
On Thu, 8 May 2003 G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 07:47:02PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>> Where can I find document about how fonts are handled in
>> debian?
> 1) apt-get install debian-policy
> 2) point your favorite browser at:
> file:///usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ch-customized-\
> programs.html#s12.8.5
OK.. in the policy document, the following directories are mentioned:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/
and then it says
" Subdirectories of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ other than those
listed above must be neither created nor used. (The PEX, CID,
and cyrillic directories are excepted for historical reasons,
but installation of files into these directories remains
discouraged.)
Font packages may, instead of placing files directly in the X
font directories listed above, provide symbolic links in that
font directory pointing to the files' actual location in the
filesystem. Such a location must comply with the FHS. "
So why do I have the following subdirs (which are *not* symbolic
links):
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/util (containing 14 files with names like
map-ISO8859-1)
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings (containing 30+ files with
names like ibm-cp437.enc).
Both are provided by the package xfonts-base, which is clearly a
"package providing fonts" as meant by the policy document.
So (I´m sorry but) I must repeat Pasi Kärkkäinen's question. Is
there a document, anywhere, that *really* explains how Debian
handles fonts? Of course I ask this because I have some font
problems of my own, and would prefer to solve them by RTFM. But
which FM, that is the question.
Regards, Jan
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