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Date:      Mon, 3 Sep 2007 11:01:13 +0200
From:      Romain =?iso-8859-1?Q?Tarti=E8re?= <romain@blogreen.org>
To:        x11@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Creating ports for X11 fonts
Message-ID:  <20070903090113.GA95271@marvin.blogreen.org>
In-Reply-To: <46DAD914.9050103@pacific.net.sg>
References:  <20070902141858.GA89621@marvin.blogreen.org> <46DAD914.9050103@pacific.net.sg>

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On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 11:39:00PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote :
> why not use
>=20
> /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/
>=20
> and then another level of directories depending on the type of the
> font i.e. TTF for true type fonts.

That is another possibility I have forgotten to mention.

Moreover, these directories contains a ``fonts.dir'' file. I guess that
when adding fonts in these directories, this file has to be updated
accordingly using mkfontdir(1).

> I would not use PORTNAME to create another directory. But I also see
> the advantage of doing so.

Font ports installing in their own subdirectory ships fonts.dir with the
port (see for example /usr/ports/x11-fonts/gentium/files/fonts.dir).
The benefit I see is that there is no stale files after removing the
port: the fonts.dir file vanishes with the font files and the
installation directory.

I am looking for a "best practice" that is the less painful for the x11
team.

Regards,
Romain

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