On Wednesday, November 09, 2005 5:47 pm, Mike A. Harris wrote: > I believe it is safe to say that the majority of fonts supplied by > X, can be considered to be fonts intended for use by X core fonts > only, rather than for general purpose use that /usr/share/fonts > is intended for. In other words, they can be considered application > specific data IMHO. I hadn't thought about it in the context of the two different font systems. Put that way, what you say above makes a lot of sense and I'm inclined to agree. Are there any legacy applications required for a proper X installation? If not, then on most systems the xorg-x11-fonts package may not be needed (as long as the X server itself supplies the infamous 'fixed' font I guess). > The new xorg-x11-fonts package installs all of the fonts into > /usr/share/X11/fonts currently, however this location is not > finalized yet. > > Also, I want to avoid xfs config file skew, as that causes a lot of > mayhem on upgrades. We need to rip out old paths that are no longer > used. > > I'll be providing updates on the Xorg modularization status page > soon: http://mharris.ca/xorg-modular/xorg-modularization.html Cool, thanks. Jesse -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
