Peter Dyballa wrote:
Hello!
This seems to be one of the last packages that still depend on freetype
and not freetype2. On ttfmkfontdir depend msttcorefonts and xfonts-intl.
Is there no way to 'port' ttfmkfontdir to freetype2 or freetype219?
This is really antique stuff, but since it seems to work, nobody has
much desire to dive into this stinking mess of different incompatible
versions of freetype, X11, and ghostscript. The "porting" of
ttfmkfontdir would most likely consist of simply removing it. The
mkfontscale/mkfontdir utilities in /usr/X11R6/bin on Panther or Tiger
seem to do their job as well as or better than ttfmkfontdir.
For the msttcorefonts package, I am pretty confident that ttfmkfontdir
can indeed be replaced. I am putting a new version into
10.{3,4*}/unstable, but I cannot test all possible versions of
X11/xfree/xorg, so I'll wait for some user feedback before replacing the
stable versions.
The xfonts-intl package uses additionally the type1inst script which is
even more antique than ttfmkfontdir (a beta version from 1998!). It can
probably be replaced by /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontscale, too, but there would
have to be some testing of those intl fonts with various versions of X11
and of ghostscript.
The other packages that depend on freetype are: dvilib2, dvilib2-dev,
spawg, spawx11, tex-guy, xgdvi, enlightenment, eterm, eterm-shlibs,
vflib3, vflib3-bin, vflib3-dev, zphoto, zphoto-wxgtk, zphoto-wxmac
--
Martin
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