On Wednesday, November 09, 2005 5:47 pm, Mike A. Harris wrote:
I believe it is safe to say that the majority of fonts supplied by
X, can be considered to be fonts intended for use by X core fonts
only, rather than for general purpose use that /usr/share/fonts
is intended for. In other words, they can be considered application
specific data IMHO.
I hadn't thought about it in the context of the two different font
systems. Put that way, what you say above makes a lot of sense and I'm
inclined to agree.
Are there any legacy applications required for a proper X installation?
If not, then on most systems the xorg-x11-fonts package may not be
needed (as long as the X server itself supplies the infamous 'fixed'
font I guess).
The new xorg-x11-fonts package installs all of the fonts into
/usr/share/X11/fonts currently, however this location is not
finalized yet.
Also, I want to avoid xfs config file skew, as that causes a lot of
mayhem on upgrades. We need to rip out old paths that are no longer
used.
I'll be providing updates on the Xorg modularization status page
soon:
http://mharris.ca/xorg-modular/xorg-modularization.html
Cool, thanks.
Jesse