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From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Java,Netscape, & AccelX
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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 17:40:22 +1000 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <199610082218.AAA22171@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Oct 9, 96 00:18:55 am
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>(Sorry for the blatant crosspost.  Background: Netcrap recommends
>people to run a `mkfontdir' in .../lib/X11/fonts/misc/ if they
>experience segfaults, and it turns out that the actual problem is that
>the fonts.dir in the XFree86 distribution mismatches with the actually
>installed fonts if somebody didn't install all the font packages.)
>
>> > So yes, this is a reason where the installation script should always
>> > finally run a `mkfontdir' there.  Jordan?
>> 
>> Actually, this should be part of XF86config since FreeBSD isn't
>> the only OS which could potentially suffer from this problem.
>> Rich? :-)
>
>Hmm, XF86Config?  I thought this was only for creating the config file
>in /etc.  Anyway, i'll move it into the XFree86 beta list then...

This is part of the postinst.sh script in recent XFree86 beta releases.
If that isn't sufficient, then perhaps we should stop splitting the
misc fonts into two parts.

David