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From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: XFree86 3.2 now available.
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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 19:41:12 +1100 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <199611060745.IAA00573@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Nov 6, 96 08:45:59 am
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>> How about running it in the postinstall script for each of the
>> packages it might affect, then?
>
>Tell this to the maintainer of the port, it's the right thing to
>do.

Running mkfontdir after any font installation is the right thing to do.
It is the only way to be sure that the fonts.dir is correct, and that
it includes any other fonts that may have been present prior to the
installation.

>> Also: the default fonts.dir could be made to not include the optional
>> items by default, so that it *will* work by default.
>
>I'm no XFree86 release building expert, but i think the problem is
>that the fonts are `make install'ed first, but only split later on
>into several tarballs.  Since the directory has been populated with
>all fonts before, you'd go through more hassles if you wanna reduce
>the fonts.dir.  Running mkfontdir afterwards seems simpler.

That's right.  If this proves to be too much of a problem, I would opt
to not splitting the misc fonts at all.  They are currently split into
two pieces, and the only reason for this is to separate out the large
fonts not required by people who only need support for European languages.

David