On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 06:25:50PM +0100, Matthieu Herrb wrote: >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.
OK, that sounds fine then, and it does backup the old one so that those who don't follow that advice have a second chance. David -- David Dawes Release Engineer/Architect The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
