David Dawes wrote (in a message from Sunday 16)
> >PS - when building and installing fontconfig as part of a 'make World
> >/ make install', is it really necessary to replace the user's existing
> >/etc/fonts/fonts.conf? I'm happy that my old configuration (with my
> >preferred antialiasing settings) was backed up by the install process,
> >but I'd as soon the new config file were not installed at all if an
> >existing config is present.
>
> I don't know why it's done that way. Most other config files are
> installed with the "InstallNonExecFileNoClobber" rule, which doesn't
> overwrite existing files.
fonts.conf contains the following comment:
Note that the normal 'make install' procedure for XFree86 is to
replace any existing fonts.conf file with the new version. Place
any local customizations in local.conf which this file references.
Matthieu
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