On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 08:20:41PM -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 02/06/13 20:00 CST: > > Randy McMurchy wrote: > >> However, the reason I'm asking is that there are .conf files shipped in the > >> tarball that are designed to be installed in /etc/fonts/conf.d, yet there > >> is > >> no instruction to install them. Are they required, or do they help > >> fontconfig > >> in the use of the DejaVu fonts, or can these files be reasonably dismissed? > > > > I don't know the answer to your question, but there is > > /etc/fonts/conf.d/README. It indicates the .conf files go in > > conf.avail/ and conf.d/ should have links there. > > Which is actually contrary to what Fontconfig does on the initial > installation. > Fontconfig puts the .conf files in /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail (note that > it is not /etc/fonts/conf.avail, which exists and is populated on my system) > and then symlinks them in /etc/fonts/conf.d. > > Other packages install directly to /etc/fonts/conf.d. Here is what I have now > in /etc/fonts/conf.d: > [ snipping the details ]
Interesting, I hadn't realised that all those symlinks were being created. I thought everything just went into /etc/fonts/conf.d. > Really doesn't matter, but why would the maintainers at DejaVu fonts put > files into their tarball in the fontconfig directory if they were not meant > to be installed? I'm more curious than anything. > Wild guess - for earlier versions of fontconfig ? Do the files from the tarball match what is already installed by fontconfig, or are they different/additional ? ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
