use defoma in fedora?
Patrice Dumas
pertusus at free.fr
Thu Jan 10 20:04:31 UTC 2008
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 02:54:51PM -0500, Kelly Miller wrote:
> Discussing this with a debian maintainer he told me
>
> > about defoma, a debian package which is used to register fonts and
> > provide fonts for all the applications, for fonts not handled by
> > fontconfig or applications not using fontconfig. Would it be a good idea
> > to try to have something similar in fedora or is it a wrong direction?<https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list>
> >
>
> NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!
>
> Defoma is the reason I stopped using anything Debian-based. The theory is
> good, but defoma frequently forgets where fonts are installed, which leads
> to the X server puking on startup and other major problems.
Hum I wouldn't have expected the X server to have anything to do with
defoma. At least it is certainly unuseful in fedora. I would see it
useful for postrscript and type1 fonts.
Is there something fundamentaly broken in defoma, or is it a bug you are
describing?
In any case it is a interesting information.
--
Pat
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