Le Mar 20 novembre 2007 13:11, Hans de Goede a écrit : > Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >> Whatever solution you choose forcing installation of core fonts >> backend by the main font package is a no-go for modern fonts >> (TTF/OTF, >> maybe Type 1 too). > > What do you mean with the "core fonts backend"? Fonts accessed through the original X core protocol. Official X11/XFree86/Xorg name of what you are writing about. (http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/xtc2001/paper/) >> You can split the core font scriptlet parts in a >> subpackage, or ship pre-generated files, as long as you do not >> impact >> the vast majority of users who have no need for core fonts. >> > > Yes, assuming that with the "core fonts backend" you mean mkfontdir & > friends, > then I agree, having a dependency on these is not a good plan, so I > see 2 options: > 1) Use pregenerated files (I just checked there contents and I see > nothing > different from how they looked in the XFree86 3.x days, so I do > not believe > these are xorg version / arch / dpi dependent). This is the > prefered option. This was changed to scriptlets in the time we still had people caring about core fonts so I wouldn't assume there were no technical reason for the change. But I actively don't care whether core fonts work or not so if you believe this will work and are ready to shoulder the resulting QA you're free to go this way. > 2) The gtk-update-icon-cache way, so conditionally run mkfontdir and > friends > from scripts, if installed. And on installation of mkfontdir, run > it for all > dirs under /etc/X11/fontpath.d > > I believe 1 si greatly preferred We chose 2 for fontconfig, but if you do the work you call the shots, as long as you conform to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/FontsPolicy Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot _______________________________________________ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
