From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 25 17:35:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F5A116A401 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:35:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@bsam.ru) Received: from mail.kuban.ru (mail.kuban.ru [62.183.66.246]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D7D313C4BF for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:35:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@bsam.ru) Received: from bsam.ru ([85.172.12.47]) by mail.kuban.ru (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id l2PH2iGO028665; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:02:54 +0400 (MSD) Received: from bsam by bsam.ru with local (Exim 4.62 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HVW7E-0000JY-G1; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:02:48 +0400 To: Joe Marcus Clarke References: <20070321193149.58843a02@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <1174839707.68048.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:02:48 +0400 In-Reply-To: <1174839707.68048.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> (Joe Marcus Clarke's message of "Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:21:47 -0400") Message-ID: <13530983@bsam.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: Boris Samorodov Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger Subject: Re: Rationale for the linux-fontconfig change in the gnome 2.18 update? X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:35:58 -0000 On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:21:47 -0400 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 19:31 +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > I would like to know the rationale for the install of a custom > > fonts.conf instead of linking to the FreeBSD one as before. > > > > Are the config files incompatible and if yes which version of > > fontconfig do we need at least to be compatible? I would prefer to > > update the fontconfig somehow instead of installing a custom fonts.conf > > file. > They are very different in 2.4. There is no longer one config file. > Instead, they are loaded like rc.d scripts in an ordered fashion from > etc/fonts/conf.d. That said, I see no reason why the linux-fontconfig > port could not be updated to 2.4.2 as well. ...exept the reason that there is only fontconfig-2.2.3 for FC4? WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve