On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 17:39 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le dimanche 06 novembre 2005 à 11:28 -0500, Mike A. Harris a écrit : > > > Another possible problem, is that I'm not sure if fontconfig/Xft > > support all of the font types that are supported by the core fonts > > system. > > Well, I for one would appreciate if all the weirdo fonts were put in > fonts-xorg-x11-legacy, and only a minimal set needed for server startup > was installed by default. > > In fact if we could have a legacy-free default config it would be even > better. The "can not find fixed" problems have been plaguing users which > had absolutely no need for fixed in the first place for years. 'fixed' has an important role as the font that is *guaranteed* to be there on X no matter what. The user probably has no need for any X core font other than 'fixed', but having 'fixed' there is an important safety net. The obvious solution would be to compile fixed into the X server in some fashion. It's been discussed at various points, but I don't think anyone has ever looked into actually doing it. Dropping XFS at this point might be a good idea .... most 'cannot find fixed' problems are really XFS problems, and if we aren't using core fonts for anything, we don't need a font server. But dropping XFS would mean changing the chkfontpath system that we use for maintaining the core X font path, and, well, that's very fragile stuff and intertwined with the %pre/%post in a lot of packages. So, I think it is better to leave XFS there until nobody needs any bitmap fonts other than fixed. Regards, Owen
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