Mike A. Harris wrote:
Avi Kivity wrote:
Adam Jackson wrote:
As said on the wiki page, what problem is xfs trying to solve? If
it's just about the ability to add fonts at runtime without having
to do 'xset fp rehash', then that should be a very small amount of
code to add to the X server. You need to watch for directories
popping in and out of existance, but, okay, we know how to do that.
Wasn't the X font server designed for storageless X terminals?
Was that before or after NFS, Coda, SMB, and numerous other networked
filesystems, etc. existed? ;o)
Seriously, there are arguments for and against keeping/removing xfs,
and I have some mixed feelings myself, but "diskless terminals" seems
like a bad reason to keep xfs.
I'm not arguing that xfs should be kept for those NCD (sp?) terminals;
just that xfs seems oriented towards those setups. Certainly, modern X
terminals are usually Linux X servers and as such can easily mount any
needed font.
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