From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Aug 5 09:47:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-multimedia Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA00466 for multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 09:47:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.think.com (Mail1.Think.COM [131.239.33.245]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA00460 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 09:47:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Early-Bird.Think.COM (Early-Bird-1.Think.COM [131.239.146.105]) by mail.think.com (8.7.5/m3) with ESMTP id MAA18997; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 12:45:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from compound.Think.COM ([206.147.16.34]) by Early-Bird.Think.COM (8.7.5/e1) with ESMTP id MAA00824; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 12:45:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from alk@localhost) by compound.Think.COM (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA25448; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 11:45:45 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 11:45:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Kimball Message-Id: <199608051645.LAA25448@compound.Think.COM> To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Cc: chuckr@glue.umd.edu, multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SciTeXt (font problem) References: <199608050940.LAA05168@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Sender: owner-multimedia@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Quoth Christoph P. Kukulies on Mon, 5 August: : Which raises the question: Which is better policy for installing fonts : under X: : : 1) adding an arbitrary non-evident directory to the fontpath : : 2) creating another directory in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts : : 3) putting the fonts into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc I like to keep application trees distinct, e.g. /apps/scitext/lib/X11/fonts, but I don't want to have to munge up my environment every time the application base changes, so I link all the leaves of /apps/{whatever} under /usr/local. X11 itself being a distinct application, with distinct upgrade/maintenance/build structures and policies, I prefer to keep the apps entirely unrelated to it by directory structure.