[HEADSUP] WIP on fonts

[Chris H]

On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 17:50:56 +0100 Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> wrote

> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 09:28:15AM -0700, Chris H wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 16:37:13 +0100 Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org>
> > wrote 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > Some of you may have notice some work on the font area.
> > > 
> > > The goal of this work is to prevent every single font package to act
> > > differently and most of the time not correctly.
> > ..
> > > 3/ Move all fonts from ${LOCALBASE}/lib/X11/fonts to
> > > ${LOCALBASE}/share/fonts > 
> > Won't this invalidate the current entries in /etc/X11/xorg.conf?
> > eg;
> > FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/{...}"
> > 
> > P.S. Thanks for doing this. Consistency is nice! :)
> > 
> > --Chris
> > 
> Yes this will, that is why I plan to add an entry in UPDATING, anyway xorg is
> supposed to be able to work without those FontPath now so it might be
> seamless for most(all?) users.
Ahh. Good. I was just wondering if it was going to be like
when X was moved from /usr, to /usr/local, and a symlink
was placed to reconcile the change.
But IMHO a note in UPDATING should be good enough. It encourages
those who don't, to start reading it. :-)

Thanks again, and sorry for the bother.

--Chris


--Chris

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