Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 10:21:07 -0700 From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> To: <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] WIP on fonts Message-ID: <01126e6b54fe63e01bd4d3be74de1dd4@ultimatedns.net> In-Reply-To: <20150320165056.GC87678@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> References: <20150320153711.GB87678@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <c8af33f759007ae8da2a1569aba9f609@ultimatedns.net>, <20150320165056.GC87678@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 17:50:56 +0100 Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@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@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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