On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 02:02:37PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > Type1 fonts can be usable without X. One example is a print server > which uses ghostscript. Defoma provides ghostscript with fonts. > Another example can be TeX. The font packages only provide fonts and > they should not depend on particular font consumers. If some software > wants to use fonts it has to get them from Defoma (as ghostscript) or > directly (as X and fontconfig). Otherwise the font packages would > have to depend on all font consumers that don't support Defoma.
I think Type1 font packages should assume they're going to be used both for printing and by X clients, but should not fail to configure if the commands that "register" them with the relevant pieces of infrastructure are not available. > > Your proposal would undermine that. Font packages could be installed > > but not usable, > > They are usable by all software that wants to use them. Only if the software knows where they are, and appropriate files/registries have been updated. > For a font package to be in a usable, configured state, one thing is > enough: its postinst to register the fonts with Defoma. I am unhappy with defoma. Hopefully its new maintainer will work with me / persuade me to see whatever light I'm supposed to be seeing. > It is not important, it is only desirable. xbase-clients (with their > xftcache) and fontconfig are not much different to xutils with respect > to the font packages. Hopefully the maintainer of fontconfig is > willing to add support for Defoma, so there will be no need to depend > on fontconfig also. > > It is also possible to add in xutils (or in some other X package) a > support for Defoma, but what I propose is a simpler solution. Well, xbase-clients is about to get busted into a bunch of pieces, and in 4.3.0 probably will not even ship xftcache. xutils will probably continue to ship utilities that manage X font directories, though. Juliusz Chroboczek has done some work on X's font-cataloging tools recently in the X Strike Force Subversion repository. -- G. Branden Robinson | It just seems to me that you are Debian GNU/Linux | willfully entering an arse-kicking [EMAIL PROTECTED] | contest with a monstrous entity http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | that has sixteen legs and no arse.
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