[Fedora-fonts-list] Fonts spec template validation

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Sat Nov 3 00:09:41 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 19:37 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> When Vera was added to Fedora years ago the xorg maintainer and desktop
> team strongly objected to adding new fonts to the legacy subsystem, and
> my own experience is they were right — fonts that have been used a long
> time with the core fonts backend tend to work, new fonts tend to expose
> many bugs no one wants to fix anymore.

Yes, please no legacy font system crap.

My only comment on the SpecTemplate is that with new fontconfig in
rawhide, there's no need to force fc-cache anymore.

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