Le lundi 13 juin 2011 Ã 09:38 -0500, Rex Dieter a Ãcrit : > No one is arguing that a proper fix isn't the best *long-term* solution. > > And, it turns out there is a short-term solution being suggested, but I have > yet to see any critiques on it. Are there any? The various short-term solutions I've seen here involved erasing valid hinting data from font files in multiples packages, to avoid setting an override in fontconfig files that QT mis-interpreted, to workaround the failure of freetype to handle partially hinted files in BCI, that was exposed when the new Fedora freetype packager arbitrarily enabled BCI with little to no discussion (or maybe there are more convolutions now, I prefer to forget them) Methinks that's a lot of font-package-side short-term solutions to hide software-package bugs. Who is going to remember to revert all this mess in all those packages when the bugs are fixed? Who is going to track the bugs are fixed? Maybe it's better to stop the workarounding now, and wait for stuff to settle a little before adding more short-term fixes to the mix? Or at least limit the experimenting to a couple packages, and think about generalizing it when we're sure it's actually working in all cases, and the blessed solution is actually documented in the wiki and fontpackages-devel, where people can look at it a month from now and understand why some font packages were changed mid 2011? And next time someone decides to change the distro default font setting, maybe some *testing* before release would be appropriate? -- Nicolas Mailhot _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list fonts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/
