Hmm, I must have been asleep at the wheel on this matter. Sorry about  
that...

On Dec 30, 2008, at 22:14 , Alexander Hansen wrote:

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> Martin Costabel wrote:
>> The xquartz X11 update packages have switched from
>> /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.conf for the fontconfig conf file to
>> /usr/X11/lib/X11/fontconfig/fonts.conf
>> [...]
>> I don't know the fontconfig xml based lingo, so I don't know if the
>> <include> directive in /sw/share/fontconfig-path/fontconfig-path.conf
>> can be conditionalized on the existence of one fonts.conf file or
>> another. It is probably easier to do this in a PostInst script.
>>
> I've attached a modification to the .info and .patch file.
> Essentially this works just as Martin suggests:  there are now
> fontconfig-path.conf.oldx and fontconfig-path.conf.newx, and a
> symbolic link to the appropriate version is generated at install time.

Thanks for looking into this!

While this would certainly be preferable over the current situation, I  
find it somewhat unsatisfactory that this needs a reinstall if the  
xquartz update gets applied behind the package's back. I'm leaning  
toward including both the old and the new path.

Matthias


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