On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 10:10:47PM -0700, Ralph Giles wrote: > I'd actually prefer to see the Type1 and Truetype fonts in a > /usr/share/fonts, and symlinked into /usr/X11R6/. Both of these formats > are broadly useful to a variety of software, and by no means exclusive to > X. They're architecture independent as well, so /usr/share seems like a > good place. This idea also helps aesthetically in providing a symmetric > place to install local fonts. (a must, IMHO, given the poor quality of > available DFSG-free display fonts)
Nothing in my policy proposal would forbid this approach. X doesn't care if the stuff it finds in its font directories are symlinks or real fonts. The proposal is meant to ensure that the stuff goes there. However, as I said elsewhere, before mandating policy for TrueType fonts, I want to see what upstream does. > I suppose this moves things up a level policy-wise, but I think it's the > best thing to do. The FHS doesn't seem to specify anything on the subject. I am perfectly willing to participate in discussion of more general font policy, but stuff with an impact beyond X I don't feel compelled to dictate. > > BTW, if Type1 fonts like this are truly sharable, I don't see much point > > in naming the package "gsfonts-x11", but maybe that's just me. If I get > > started ranting on people's illogical and inconsistent package names, > > I'll never stop. And we've all seen how gracefully dpkg handles package > > renames (not). > > See, my proposal gets rid of the need for such packages! =) As I said, nothing in your proposal contradicts mine. > > I'll clarify the proposal that symlinks are acceptable as long as > > /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts/ is not otherwise cluttered with directories. > > You mean /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ ? Yeah. > Down at the wishlist level, I'd like to see some way to break font > collections into directories. Things quickly get unwieldy and it would be > nice to have an obvious indication of what fonts came from where. Unfortunately, X font path handling is even more onerous to fool with. Until that changes I'd rather just have monolithic font directories. I am very nervous about letting font packages dick with /etc/X11/XF86Config, /etc/X11/xfs/config, etc. That increases the odds that something will screw up these files and X servers are very poorly behaved when they can't find their fonts. -- G. Branden Robinson | Somewhere, there is a .sig so funny that Debian GNU/Linux | reading it will cause an aneurysm. This [EMAIL PROTECTED] | is not that .sig. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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