I'm really confused about this one...
When I set-up my Gentoo box (maybe a year ago), I used the (now
extinct) Desktop guide, which "strongly" suggested using the XFS
font server. Dutifully, I installed it (with "emerge xfs" IIRC).
Now, it wasn't more than a few weeks ago when I was asking in the
Forum about the need for XFS (since I wasn't actually *serving*
any fonts to *anyone*). The responses led me to believe that
there wasn't any advantage to continuing to use the X Font
Server, so I decided that I'd remove it at some point in the
future (no time at the present). I decided to upgrade from my
"old" 2.4.26-gentoo-r9 to the 2.4.28-gentoo-r5 today, and so I
rebooted. X then failed, telling me:
* Starting X Font Server ...
start-stop-daemon:
stat "/usr/X11R6/bin/xfs" : No such file or directory
Sure enough, the file was *gone*! It's a little Twilight
Zone'ish! I can't find any reference indicating that there ever
*was* any "xfs" package! I even did an:
$ equery belongs /etc/init.d/xfs
$ equery belongs /etc/conf.d/xfs
and---of course---they both show no "owner"!
When did XFS disappear? Shouldn't *something* have informed me
that it was deleting the file? Or that the X Font Server was
going away? I 'grep'ped all over my "/var/log/portage/*.log"
files for any mention of it, and I couldn't find anything.
Can anyone enlighten me?
Thanks,
Bruce.
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