Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> I am guilty of not sticking to schedules. A bunch of things came up
> at work and conspired to hog my precious time. Anyway typically
> there are a few font families in the Xorg tree: adobe, arabic, bh,
> bitstream, misc, sun, liberation, DejaVu etc. So my suggestion is to
> have package boundaries based on these families and another package
> for miscellaneous stuff related to fonts. I estimate a part-time effort
> of about 5 days to get the packages done.
Remember that if you split fonts in the same directory across multiple
packages, those fonts either become invisible to apps using the old X
font system (i.e. non gtk/qt/Xft apps), or you have to invent a SMF
service to replace the old SVR4 mkfontdir class action scripts.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
