Bug#207976: xlibs: support modular configuration of /etc/X11/XftConfig through include directives
Package: xlibs
Version: 4.3.0-0pre1v1
Severity: wishlist
The idea here is to let font package maintainers sweat the details of
XftConfig tweaking through an update-modules style approach.
We can have an update-xftconfig command:
update-xftconfig { --add | --remove } packagename
E.g.:
update-xftconfig --add xfonts-scalable
update-xftconfig --remove ttf-freefont
This command would add or remove lines of the following format from
/etc/X11/XftConfig (which would have to stop being a conffile):
includeif "/etc/X11/fonts/$package.xftconfig"
update-xftconfig --add would be called on package install, and
update-xftconfig --remove on package removal.
(As usual, the issue of preserving user modifications must be
addressed.)
This bug may need to be reassigned to libxft2 depending on how quickly
this gets implemented.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: powerpc
Kernel: Linux redwald 2.4.19-powerpc #1 Mon Sep 9 09:01:43 EDT 2002 ppc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US
Versions of packages xlibs depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libexpat1 1.95.6-6 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libfontconfig1 2.2.1-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.4-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libxrender1 0.8.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii xfree86-common 4.3.0-0pre1v1 X Window System (XFree86) infrastr
ii xlibs-data 4.3.0-0pre1v1 X Window System client data
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