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Subject:    [gentoo-dev] Fonts, Xfree, Linux
From:       Seemant Kulleen <seemant () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2003-05-30 9:30:39
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Hi All,

OK, the above combination, as we all know, blows dogs.  Having said that, I have some \
ideas.  First, to reiterate as in my last e-mail: xfree-4.3.0-r3 is moving towards \
*NOT* installing *ANY* fonts at all.  All the xfree built-in fonts will move to \
separate packages in media-fonts.  Additionally *ALL* fonts will be in \
/usr/share/fonts, rather than /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts (and I had to hold back from \
exaggerating it to say /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/R6/include/lib/X/X11/X11R6/misc/lib/fonts \
:P).

The idea is that this will be a centralised location for system fonts.  All user \
custom fonts would go into /usr/share/fonts (or perhaps /usr/local/share/fonts -- not \
sure on that one, and not sure how much complexity it would add).

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.

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).

Now, here's the question.  Gentoo policy dictates that we do not touch files in /etc. \
During emerge, this is fine, we can provide a file to be etc-update'd.  The concern \
is during emerge unmerge, when a font path is to be removed.

I guess the question is: do we violate policy on these two files, or is there a more \
clever solution to this?  One thought which comes up is to have the utility just \
check which font paths exist in /usr/share/fonts and make sure both files have them.  \
Again, that would violate policy :/

The other thought which arises is to have those files in /usr/share/xfree or some \
such, but I'm not entirely comfortable with that, either.


Thoughts, opinions, criticisms?

Thanks,

-- 
Seemant Kulleen
Developer and Project Co-ordinator,
Gentoo Linux					http://www.gentoo.org/~seemant

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