Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:07:34 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rationale for the linux-fontconfig change in the gnome 2.18 update? Message-ID: <20070325220734.683d757e@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <13530983@bsam.ru> References: <20070321193149.58843a02@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <1174839707.68048.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <13530983@bsam.ru>
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Quoting Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> (Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:02:48 +0400): > On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:21:47 -0400 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 19:31 +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > > > I would like to know the rationale for the install of a custom > > > fonts.conf instead of linking to the FreeBSD one as before. > > > > > > Are the config files incompatible and if yes which version of > > > fontconfig do we need at least to be compatible? I would prefer to > > > update the fontconfig somehow instead of installing a custom fonts.conf > > > file. > > > They are very different in 2.4. There is no longer one config file. > > Instead, they are loaded like rc.d scripts in an ordered fashion from > > etc/fonts/conf.d. That said, I see no reason why the linux-fontconfig We can link to the dir too, no problem. Thanks for the explanation. > > port could not be updated to 2.4.2 as well. > > ...exept the reason that there is only fontconfig-2.2.3 for FC4? We don't need to take the official FC one. We can try to find a 3rd party one for FC4. I try to get time tomorrow to search one. Bye, Alexander. -- BOFH excuse #17: fat electrons in the lines http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137
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