Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:02:48 +0400 From: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Subject: Re: Rationale for the linux-fontconfig change in the gnome 2.18 update? Message-ID: <13530983@bsam.ru> In-Reply-To: <1174839707.68048.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> (Joe Marcus Clarke's message of "Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:21:47 -0400") References: <20070321193149.58843a02@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <1174839707.68048.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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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
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