Freetype Hinting

[Jeremy <jeremy@pinacol.com>]

Does anyone know if it's possible to enable the bytecode hinting in 
freetype2 on a debian system?  As I understand, this was disabled by 
default because of patent issues.

I could remove the library package (libfreetype6) and manually compile 
to get the hinting enabled, but that is going to mess up my apt stuff, 
right?  Maybe there's an alternate debian package for libfreetype6 that 
has the superior hinting enabled?  Or perhaps there's another way to 
mess with these settings?

Thanks,
Jeremy