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From: Thierry Thomas <thierry@FreeBSD.org>
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On mon  6 jun 11 at 5:26:54 +0200, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
 wrote:

> >   Note: with this release, it would be possible to get the source tarball
> >   and build the fonts, with fontforge as a BUILD_DEPENDENCY; is there an
> >   interest for this?
> 
> What benefits will it have?  Building *code* from source makes sence for
> obvious reasons (if it supposed to run natively), but pulling extra
> build dependency and thus increasing build time and requirements to get
> exactly the same set of .ttf files at the end seems not what most users
> would appreciate, I think.

Well, just like any other source package: it would let you hack the
source to test a patch or build your own derivative...

I'm not hacking fonts myself, but just wondering if that could interest
some users.

So far, no request for this "feature", then I'll keep the port as-is.

Best regards,
-- 
Th. Thomas.