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On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 04:33:32PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I encountered some problems with xfs-xtt and checked
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ a bit. Then I found that there is
> almost empty directories in that directory, for example,
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/chinese with only fonts.{alias,dir}.Hmm, yeah. Thanks for pointing that out, I had not thought of it before. I guess what needs to happen is, I need to add brains to update-fonts-alias to sense an empty font dir and thus not write a fonts.alias file. As for mkfontdir, it is an upstream tool, but needs 2 modifications made to work in a way that would be ideal for Debian: 1) an option to turn off unlinking before writing 2) an option to not write anything if there is nothing to write An empty fonts.dir files is 2 bytes long: 0000000 0 \n 0000002 There is currently a big X font policy proposal under discussion in debian-policy. I need to amend it to address the issue you raise. In the meantime, one of xfonts-intl-chinese's maintainer scripts (preinst seems like a good candidate), should go hunting for its old directory and remove it and its contents. As long as nothing else ever used that directory, this is a risk-free operation. if [ -d /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/chinese ]; then rm -r /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/chinese fi (I know rm -rf is simpler, but rm -rf plus a typo can cause you a heart attack; the above at least saves you if your typo target exists and is not a directory.) > Is there any smart method to treat this situation well or > is it unavoidable ??? It is not unavoidable. The tools for updating font directories just need to be made a little smarter, that is all, and I will get to work on that. -- G. Branden Robinson | "I came, I saw, she conquered." The Debian GNU/Linux | original Latin seems to have been [EMAIL PROTECTED] | garbled. roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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