Danny Milosavljevic (2017-02-14 18:56 +0100) wrote: > Hi, > >> One problem of this solution is that some font packages (for example, >> fonts-misc-misc) already have fonts.dir, to avoid conflict, it is better >> to remove fonts.dir in all font packages and generate fonts.dir in >> fonts-dir-file, I think that is good. But I don't know whether others >> think that is a good idea. > > If it can happen that multiple packages install to share/fonts/<xxx> > (certainly true for share/fonts/truetype and probably true for other > <format>-directories) and fonts.dir then is conflicting (and doesn't > ever contain all the entries of the directory), I think that your idea > is very good (and how it was done before is dead wrong).
I completely agree; removing all "fonts.dir" and "fonts.alias" files from packages and regenerating them at profile time looks like a good idea to me. -- Alex
