On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:57:09PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On 12.VI.2003 at 15:04 Branden Robinson wrote: > > xbase-clients neither knows what place in the installation sequence it > > has relative to font packages, nor can it affect that place. > > Exactly. When it happens xbase-clients to be installed after all font > packages it is its job to invoke xftcache as in this case the font > packages does not have the chance to invoke xftcache. > > Consider the relations between xfonts-scalable and xbase-clients. > When xfonts-scalable is installed after xbase-clients its postinst > invokes xftcache. But when xbase-clients is installed after > xfonts-scalable, then 1) xfonts-scalable is not able to invoke > xftcache and 2) xbase-clients doesn't care to do so. As a result no > font cache is generated. > > During initial installation the user is not able to control the order > in which the packages are being installed but the final result of the > installation depends on this order. This is not nice. Okay. I understand you *much* better now. You do raise a good point. Let me mull over this. I don't want xbase-clients to go poking around the file system looking for fonts to configure. There should be one and only one directory it has to traverse. (My preference is /etc/X11/fonts.) -- G. Branden Robinson | Imagination was given man to Debian GNU/Linux | compensate for what he is not, and branden@debian.org | a sense of humor to console him for http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | what he is.
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