> On Oct 1, 2015, at 15:27, Philip Race <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I think what Richard says is just that the fonts.dir, fonts.list and 
> fonts.scale files
> were removed and they need to be there to describe to X11 what fonts
> are installed in that directory. Basically the question is if you can't add
> those files to that directory, how can the Xserver use them ?
> 
> -phil.

Precisely.

As for the non-X11 aspects of SIP, I'm not saying alternatives to disabling it 
don't exist, but that from what I've seen thus far (and I may well have missed 
quite a bit), they're either not all documented together (with SIP 
documentation, as required adaptations), not documented at all, or not 
transparent (i.e. not included in automatic path search for the corresponding 
components).  Saying use /usr/local/... instead of /usr/... isn't the same as 
saying that e.g. /usr/local/share/zoneinfo (or terminfo) works the same as the 
corresponding /usr/share directory, or /usr/local/lib/pam works the same as 
/usr/lib/pam.

And of course, MacPorts (another MacOSforge project) does not work well with 
/usr/local, period, since some open source software is difficult to purge of 
references to /usr/local that would cause build problems for MacPorts.

Granted that for 98% of the out-of-the-box folks, little of this matters, 
unless some 3rd-party developer hasn't done their homework (which usually gets 
fixed if the product is still maintained).  But for the other 2% of us, if 
there's a right way, it should result in minimal lost functionality, once 
adjustments are made; but the information is still sketchy on how that will 
work out.  For example, nothing says whether rootless.conf will get clobbered 
in updates.  Some least-scope changes (i.e. opening up one or two 
subdirectories of /usr/share) would be a tempting alternative to csrutil 
disable, but only if they wouldn't get clobbered all the time...and of course, 
only if some preferable and equally functional alternative did not exist.

> 
> On 10/1/15, 12:15 PM, Allen Bennett wrote:
>> 
>> Sorry about the misunderstanding but they do exist on my system 10.11 and 
>> are available to apps. Something went wrong; the fonts are in my clean 
>> install. The modification dates is August 2015, so they post Yosemite.. I 
>> can’t install mac ports to install stuff right now to test.
>>> On Oct 1, 2015, at 10:58 AM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Allen Bennett <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> > On Oct 1, 2015, at 7:23 AM, Richard L. Hamilton <[email protected] 
>>> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> > ...as part of the "rootless"/System Integrity Protection setup, 
>>> > presumably.
>>> 
>>> There is a reason all users only have Read Only Access to 
>>> /System/Library/Fonts: You are not supposed to add stuff there. Generally 
>>> doing anything in /System is a bad. /Library/Fonts is where fonts needed by 
>>> all users should go. If you are admin, you don’t even need to give your 
>>> password to add fonts to /Library/Fonts.
>>> 
>>> The cited fonts were provided by Apple as part of the base system on 
>>> earlier OS versions. This is not a question of Apple removing user-added 
>>> fonts. 
>> 
>> 
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