Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> writes: > I don't think this change is good as-is. The "don't depend on X font > packages" is still very much relevant, for applications that use the > "traditional" X font system, where the X server loads the fonts. The X > server can still be on a different machine from the client.
Argh, you are of course entirely correct, so I think this change may be wrong. I just tested and indeed traditional bitmap fonts are still loaded from the X server, not from the client. I had thought I'd tested that before but tested it incorrectly. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
