Re: [gentoo-dev] Fonts, Xfree, Linux

[Terje Kvernes]

Seemant Kulleen <seemant@g.o> writes:

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> Anyway, RedHat developed a tool called chkfontpath which updates
> /etc/X11/fs/config with font paths to be added, removed, queried and
> what not. It seems most binary distros distribute this utility.  We
> had a look at it (popt is a required dependency for it), and I've
> asked Graham (vladimir@g.o) to come up with a perl equivalent for
> it.  To me, it seems that coding that in C and using popt is
> overkill.
  
  if a working tool exists, is it really worth rewriting the tool just
  to remove popt as a dependency?  actually, to me it seems that
  you're removing popt and adding perl as a dependency.  :-)

> So the idea he and I discussed was to have this utility (or set of
> utilities) to update the fontpaths in /etc/X11/fs/config as well as
> /etc/X11/XF86Config (IF the font path is other than unix:/7100 in
> that file).

  is this something chkfontpath already does, or something
  Gentoo-specific and new?
 
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  now, as for policy...  when you install a font, you probably want it
  to be available for X.  then again, it's sort of the same thing with
  a daemon, and rc-update.  a common behavior is a good thing, even if
  it requires some monotonous user action every time.  as long as the
  behavior is well documented, I don't see a big problem it.

-- 
Terje

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