Does anyone know of any remaining users of the Type1 fonts?

[Jim Gettys]

On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 22:01 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le mercredi 03 septembre 2008 à 15:50 -0400, Jim Gettys a écrit :
> > I'm specifically talking about the type-1 fonts in the distribution; I
> > wasn't planning to pull the renderer itself.
> > 
> > Specifically the package: xorg-x11-fonts-Type1
> 
> I don't think anything really depends on this one.
> 
> Actually, except for console users, I don't think anything really
> depends on xorg fonts anymore (except the builtin ones). They've been
> dead wood too long – font projects moved elsewere.
> 

Exactly.  I suspect it is pretty safe to nuke it so it isn't installed
on Fedora by default, leaving the chance of picking them up by accident.

There are some other packages that are similar, I suspect; e.g. the URW
fonts.

It's also possible to nuke the bitmap fonts, though for legacy reasons,
font aliases should be installed to fail-over to one of the modern
outline fonts.
                           - Jim


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