What about improving the desktop ports consistency: task 1, the fonts

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at freebsd.org
Fri Mar 2 07:53:47 UTC 2012


On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 03:53:37AM +0100, Alberto Villa wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 February 2012 20:35:58 Alberto Villa wrote:
> > We obviously need a better way to
> > do it: bapt@ suggests INSTALLS_FONTS=(ttf|whatever). I'll implement it 
> in
> > my next patch.
> 
> The patch is ready, but I'm still testing it on some ports. Luckily, it will 
> not affect anything which doesn't set INSTALLS_FONTS=yes, so I will be 
> able to push it to x11@  for review before having patches for every port.
> 
> Currently I've set FONTDIR?=${PORTNAME:C/[-_]fonts?$//}, but I'm not 
> sure I should affect by default the installation directory (non-X.Org fonts 
> get installed to /usr/local/share/fonts/${FONTDIR}, just for your 
> information). Do you think I should revert it to FONTDIR?=${PORTNAME}?
> 
> By the way, it installs a default pkg-message for non-X.Org ports if none 
> was provided. I hope this won't be considered too hackish. :)

Thank you very very much, looks great, push it to x11@, just before pushing it
to x11@ can you just add some if defined(WITH_PKGNG) @fontdir and append the
fontdir.yaml? (it is already supported in beta7 of pkgng) if you are not
confident with that part I'll add it when it would be in the tree.

regards,
Bapt
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