Where should the modular X11R7 fonts get installed to?

Jesse Barnes jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Sun Nov 6 16:48:59 UTC 2005


On Sunday, November 06, 2005 8:28 am, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> I believe Owen, or whoever set up our default fonts.conf
> configuration, intentionally selected only the above specific
> /usr/X11R6 font directories, in order to pick up the scaleable Type1
> and OTF fonts that come with X, intentionally excluding all of the
> ugly bitmap fonts and other weirdo fonts from being seen by
> fontconfig.

But don't you *want* to see all your fonts?  I.e. if you chose to 
install xorg-ugly-fonts, you don't want them mysteriously missing from 
your font listings, do you?

I think as long as the ugly fonts are in separate packages, putting them 
all in /usr/share/fonts will be ok based on the principle of least 
surprise (though you bring up a good point that this is a change in 
behavior wrt current FC).

Jesse




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