On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 06:25:50PM +0100, Matthieu Herrb wrote: > 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.
I read that some time ago and found it was missing some vital info. The format is not immidiately obvious (no, the configfile is not readble for all system maintainers!), the preference (overwriting or adding options) is not obvious and more importantly; why provide a config file that only defines defaults? But the first two don't occur when the last is solved. I know of no application that provides a config file you are not suppost to edit and asking the user to make another is plain confusing, and horrible for file permission management. All applications call the non-changeable setting defaults and hardcode them, allowing changes to be configured in the configuration files. Sorry if that gives you the 'duh' feeling :) If you don't intend to change this (by moving the current contents of fonts.conf to the applications as 'hardcoded') for the following version at least provide a local.conf with the contents of what is now in the fonts.conf. -- Thomas Zander _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
