file dependencies and packages and [blocker] bugs

[Callum Lerwick]

On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 20:55 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) said: 
> > So, maybe I'm insane, but if all you want is a sans bold, etc. font - that
> > can't be more than about 20 lines of fontconfig code to look for a match
> > for the 'sans' pattern and get a filename. That way:
> > 
> > - you don't have to hardcode any files
> > - you don't have to hardcode any requirements
> 
> OK, *somewhat* more than 20 lines. But still...

Oooooh. The Second Life client suffers from this exact problem. I looked
at the fontconfig docs and found them... rather opaque. My approach was
going to be to switch it to render fonts with Cairo rather than directly
with freetype. Example code good...
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