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On Friday 30 May 2003 19:21, Svyatogor wrote: |
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> However, I am not so sure about the first part of the suggestion, which is |
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> not installing any fonts with xfree. When I first installed gentoo, I |
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> remember being very please with the fact that after emerging xfree I got a |
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> proper support of cyrillic fonts staringht away. I did not have it in any |
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> other distro: they all required me to install additional packages to get |
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> something different from default fonts, which have very ugly cyrullic chars |
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> or don't support them at all. |
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> What I am trying basically to say, is that users should be getting |
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> reasonable set of fonts, with proper support of their local chars right |
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> after installing xfree and not have to search in portage to get at least |
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> some fonts with their local glyphs. |
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As seemant said somewhere, the new xfree ebuild will have the separated font |
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ebuilds in PDEPEND. They'll still be installed, at least by default, they'll |
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just live in separate packages which makes sense for people who don't want |
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them. |
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Dan Armak |
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Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) |
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Matan, Israel |
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Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key |
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