Bug#197154: Subject: It will be more convenient if xutils.postinst setups the font directories

[Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>]

On 13.VI2003 at 11:48 Branden Robinson wrote:
> 
> I am unhappy with defoma. 

Me too.  I discovered that I am not able to remove some fonts from my
packages.  This is a design flaw, though it can be fixed.

But I am not very embarassed about Defoma because I feel that I if
some problem of Defoma starts to bother me too much, I will be forced
not to be lazy and fix it. :)

> Hopefully its new maintainer will work with me / persuade me to see
> whatever light I'm supposed to be seeing.

Defoma tries to be universal and possibly this is what makes it so
complex.  It can generate authomaticaly fonts.scale and fonts.alias
for X, declare fonts and PS-name aliases for Ghostscript.  I even
managed to create a package defoma-tex that is able to make Type1
fonts available for TeX.  (But then I realised that no one will use it
-- gsfonts are internaly supported by TeX, for my packages I decided
to use a different way and xfonts-scalable doesn't support Defoma.)

Anton Zinoviev