Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 19:41:22 -0500 (CDT) From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: X.Org conversion Message-ID: <XFMail.20040723194122.conrads@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <1090629198.44506.3.camel@leguin>
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On 24-Jul-2004 Eric Anholt wrote: > On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 17:25, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: >> On 24-Jul-2004 Eric Anholt wrote: >> > On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 17:07, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: >> >> >> >> Just one question: have the inconsistencies been worked out in >> >> translating XFree86 fonts package dependencies to Xorg fonts >> >> packages? Have all ports that depend on XFree86 fonts packages >> >> been adjusted, and if so, how was this issue resolved? >> > >> > Yes, it was dealt with by making those ports point at the font >> > package that provides truetype fonts. >> >> OK, but then what about the dependencies on Type1 fonts? Those have >> all just been dropped? Might it not be better to ensure that both >> packages are listed now as dependencies? > > Do those package actually depend on type1 fonts? If so, then they > should be fixed to depend on them. > > I didn't investigate deeply. I'm pretty sure they just want a pretty > scalable font. Could be. I haven't looked that closely at them, either. :-) Rather unfortunate, isn't it, that the font packages don't have a one-to-one correspondence between the two systems. Ah well, I'm sure this will all work itself out over time. I am just *so* pleased that the transition has finally come about and the tedious running of pkgdb after every portupgrade will no longer be necessary. Thanks once again for the great work! -- Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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