From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 24 02:12:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D163516A4CE for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 02:12:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lakermmtao04.cox.net (lakermmtao04.cox.net [68.230.240.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CEEC43D31 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 02:12:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from dolphin.local.net ([68.11.71.51]) by lakermmtao04.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.03.02.01 201-2131-111-104-103-20040709) with ESMTP id <20040724021248.OTAZ9654.lakermmtao04.cox.net@dolphin.local.net>; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 22:12:48 -0400 Received: from dolphin.local.net (localhost.local.net [127.0.0.1]) by dolphin.local.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i6O2CnvV051787; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 21:12:49 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads@dolphin.local.net) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by dolphin.local.net (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i6O2Cnt3051786; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 21:12:49 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.5 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1090630526.44506.9.camel@leguin> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 21:12:48 -0500 (CDT) Organization: A Rag-Tag Band of Drug-Crazed Hippies From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" To: Eric Anholt cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: X.Org conversion X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: conrads@cox.net List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 02:12:50 -0000 On 24-Jul-2004 Eric Anholt wrote: > On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 17:41, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: >> >> Rather unfortunate, isn't it, that the font packages don't have a >> one-to-one correspondence between the two systems. > > Not in my opinion. I think it's an improvement, which is why I did > it. It better matches the layout in the tree, and I think makes more > sense. > I don't intend people to be switching between XFree86 and X.Org > regularly. In fact, I expect that it will be a one-way thing. True. > My point about this issue you brought up is that I don't think it's > an issue. If you want a full set of fonts, then install all the font > ports (probably even more than are distributed with X). If you just > need a scalable font to get the port to run, well, that's what the > dependency will provide. If those ports do in fact require the Type 1 > fonts, well, then that's a bug and please submit a PR. OK, I see. That makes sense. Enough about that. :-) -- Conrad J. Sabatier -- "In Unix veritas"