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On Friday 30 May 2003 09:30, Seemant Kulleen wrote: |
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> OK, the above combination, as we all know, blows dogs. Having said that, I |
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> have some ideas. First, to reiterate as in my last e-mail: xfree-4.3.0-r3 |
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> is moving towards *NOT* installing *ANY* fonts at all. All the xfree |
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> built-in fonts will move to separate packages in media-fonts. Additionally |
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> *ALL* fonts will be in /usr/share/fonts, rather than |
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> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts (and I had to hold back from exaggerating it to |
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> say /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/R6/include/lib/X/X11/X11R6/misc/lib/fonts :P). |
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Hello! |
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If you don't mind me giving some comments on it. The idea to move all the |
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fonts to /usr/share/fonts is great and actually it is necessary, cause |
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otherwise the whole font tre is a big mess. |
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However, I am not so sure about the first part of the suggestion, which is not |
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installing any fonts with xfree. When I first installed gentoo, I remember |
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being very please with the fact that after emerging xfree I got a proper |
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support of cyrillic fonts staringht away. I did not have it in any other |
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distro: they all required me to install additional packages to get something |
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different from default fonts, which have very ugly cyrullic chars or don't |
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support them at all. |
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What I am trying basically to say, is that users should be getting reasonable |
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set of fonts, with proper support of their local chars right after installing |
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xfree and not have to search in portage to get at least some fonts with their |
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local glyphs. |
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Regards, |
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Sergey Kuleshov <svyatogor@g.o> |
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Let the Force be with us! |
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