On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 08:24:24PM +0200, Kastytis Laurinaitis wrote: > Package: xfonts-base-transcoded > Version: 4.2.1-12.1 > Severity: normal > Followup-For: Bug #134968 > > Hi, > > It's very unfriendly for users if fonts are not available in system after installing, They are available, just not to X servers or font servers that are running at that instant. > Please, call "xset fp rehash" in postinst of all fonts packages That wouldn't solve the problem -- it will only work for people who have the $DISPLAY variable set in the shell environment in which the dpkg maintainer scripts are executing, which will usually not be the case (and shouldn't be if the local adminstrator gives a hoot about security). In any case, it won't do a thing for users of other X server processes running on the box, or people getting font services from font servers running on this box. For all of the above reasons, I will not be honoring this request. -- G. Branden Robinson | Good judgement comes from Debian GNU/Linux | experience; experience comes from branden@debian.org | bad judgement. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Fred Brooks
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