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On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 09:49, Ferris McCormick wrote: |
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> I am guessing here; I don't know why it's hard masked. I suggest you look |
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> at the ChangeLog and address the question to spyderous. |
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I don't see much in the ChangeLog to give any hints. The listing in |
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package.mask is: |
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# <seemant@g.o> 21 May, 2003 |
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# Masked while it's still under development. I need revision control on |
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the |
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# thing, which is why it's in portage at all. Do NOT install this. |
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# 30 May, 2003 : Seems that xterm is in its own separate package as |
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well, so |
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# taking that out of -r3. Added utempter, (dep for xterm to not install |
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# suid) |
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=x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r6 |
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media-fonts/chkfontpath |
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I guess I would just like to see us using common font locations across |
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our 2 major X builds. |
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> That said: |
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> I think one of the reasons is the font directory change, but I am not part |
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> of the xfree herd, and I have no direct information. |
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> I can tell you that for sparc, it runs just like xfree-4.3.0-r5, but with |
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> the font move. I can also tell you that for sparc, you are better off |
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> bypassing 4.3.0-r6, 4.3.xx, and moving directly to xorg-x11. But I am |
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> not developing tools to run on both. |
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Actually, I am working with a tool to create working X configurations. |
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Currently, it works with xfree, but not xorg-x11. To get it to work |
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with xorg-x11 (and eventually allow us to transition that way), the |
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fonts need to be in the same place. |
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> I don't know what architectures interest you, but sparc is not likely |
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> to be high on your list :) |
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I don't know much about it, but I'll be learning much more that I |
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started my new position, since we have a decent amount of sparc |
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machines. |
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> (On sparc, I would say "go for it (-r6) if you need to," but I do not |
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> presume to suggest that is the case for anything else. I would also |
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> say "don't even think about 4.3.99-xxx, because it likely won't work |
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> the way you want, and you won't get much sympathy if you complain." But |
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> I am speaking for myself here.) |
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I don't want 4.3.99. All I want is for the fonts to be in the same |
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place on both X servers. ;] |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Games Team |
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