RFC: Making the xfs font server optional in Fedora Core and its derivatives.

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 16:27 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> Callum Lerwick wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 19:53 -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> >> I can't guess how many users use nedit, but emacs
> >> and mplayer have a massive userbase.
> > 
> > And thus have plenty of motivation, and available manpower with which to
> > port them over to using Xft.
> > 
> > GVIM and Xine have been using GTK2/Xft for some time now. (Warning:
> > Contains flamebait.)
> > 
> > Fiddling around with compatibility layers, or trying to get the X server
> > itself to handle fonts rather than xfs, is a waste of effort better put
> > towards simply porting apps over to using Xft.
> > 
> > Either we put our foot down, and completely rip out core fonts now, or
> > we leave it as is and have this argument yet again during FC7 devel...
> 
> We can not delete core font support.  Full stop.
> 
> Anyway it turns out this is a lot of noise over nothing, it's not 
> looking too difficult to fontconfigify libXfont, which will solve the 
> problem for xfs and all the X servers all at once.  So I'm just going to 
> fix the real bug now, and you're all going to stop bikeshedding, k?
> 
> - ajax

Deal.

Rahul