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

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Mon May 22 18:18:12 UTC 2006


Le lundi 22 mai 2006 à 13:33 -0400, Mike A. Harris a écrit :
> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> > I can only approve phasing out core fonts one way or another.
> 
> Technically, I believe complete removal of all core font support
> would result in an X Window System implementation which is
> non-compliant I believe.

Well, you know as well as me that this kind of thing can change once the
number of users has shrunk drastically.

> RHEL and Fedora are from the same code base, so they're
> both equally affected or non-affected.  What is different
> perhaps, is how people _use_ each OS.
> 
> Whatever we change in Fedora, will end up becoming "the
> new way things work" in the next RHEL release.  So whatever
> solution is decided upon will affect both Fedora Core 6
> and RHEL-$next-generation users/customers equally.

Methinks the fact we've just passed a FC -> RHEL sync point explains
part of your timing

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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