On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 04:21:20PM -0600, Bradley W. Allen wrote: > I am attempting to do the correct action with AbiWord. Since AbiWord > needs all sorts of font crap done to it (which is a mess), I started > out to do it all. Unfortunately, it says "edit fonts.scale and > fonts.dir by hand for every directory and font ...", and there is NO > WAY I AM GOING TO DO THAT for thousands of fonts I don't even know if > I'm going to use all of; to fix that, it has to be automated. This is > a whole bunch of symlinks underneath /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts. This > problem should be fixed in AbiWord, and in Debian's configuration of > AbiWord, but in the meanwhile, there is purpose to use > update-fonts-scale to update all those fonts.scale files that > mkfontdir doesn't know how to deal with. The arbitrary refusal of > update-fonts-scale is obscene in this case, and not having an override > option is abysmal.
I am downgrading this bug to wishlist because: 1) you're asking for update-fonts-scale to do something it wasn't intended to do (which is to support font packages for the X Window System that follow the Debian Policy Manual); 2) It should be pretty easy to write your own shell script that will do what you want, cribbing from u-f-s as needed. If there's "NO WAY [YOU ARE] GOING TO DO" something by hand, it's time to write a script. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | De minimis non curat lex. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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