On Thursday, September 10, 2015 10:44:44 AM Keith Packard wrote: > Emil Velikov <emil.l.veli...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Had a long hard look at the Archlinux repos and did not see (m)any > > libxfont users outside of xserver. Would you/others know if they're > > still a thing or they share the same faith as the print server :-) > > There really shouldn't be any other than the X font utilities (bdftopcf, > mkfontdir, etc). > > I played around with getting rid of libXfont from the X server entirely; > for font files, you really want to just use libfreetype as that already > works for all font files, and that leaves only font server access. > > It turns out that fontserver access from the X server has been broken > for several years; I'm wondering if it might not be time to just go > delete that code now...
Seems like a good plan...
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