Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:57:02 +0100 From: Alberto Villa <avilla@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org Cc: rflynn@acsalaska.net, desktop@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What about improving the desktop ports consistency: task 1, the fonts Message-ID: <201202280357.05198.avilla@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201201201004.36979.avilla@freebsd.org> References: <20120120065141.GM4729@azathoth.lan> <201201201004.36979.avilla@freebsd.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] I'm making a port for a font, so I'm stepping into this. On Friday 20 January 2012 10:04:34 Alberto Villa wrote: > On Friday 20 January 2012 07:51:41 Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > I have seen that some ports use INSTALLS_* from bsd.xorg.mk, some > > others do > > > the mkfontscale first and directly package the fonts.scale fonts.* stuff > > in the package. When not using XORG_CAT=font and INSTALLS_TTF=yes, ports just mimic that behaviour, with some deviations (like installing fonts.scale and fonts.dirs files) which appear not to be optimal. I will try converting some ports to bsd.xorg.mk magic and see what changes. > > (do we still need that FontPath thing?, if no then the > > pkg-message asking people to fill it should be dropped) > > I think we do, but will try and report. I'm currently running KDE with stock FontPath's, and I can use my port- installed fonts. Seems like fontconfig takes care of this. Thus, there's no pkg-message in my port. I wonder, though, if there's still software not using fontconfig: I guess that, in that case, FontPath might be required. > > If you are not willing to write the page, I'll do, but I need someone > > describing me how things are working together in the font world. > > Unfortunately I don't know this kind of stuff. If no one here does, we > might call for help in x11@ (eadler?)... I had a discussion with melflynn in #bsdports which brought to the conclusion that the magic is already there, and it should be used. I will test it, and if it works fine, I can try writing a prototype of the page. It shouldn't take too much time. By the way, I'm including him in the thread. Keep him CCed as he's not subscribed (currently). melflynn: did I say something wrong? -- Alberto Villa, FreeBSD committer <avilla@FreeBSD.org> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~avilla Murder is always a mistake -- one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner. -- Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) iJwEAAECAAYFAk9MQoEACgkQ3xiC6kQ1Cov3GwP/dra5Xs08Xx4ycRzMBr6UIJFM UzrtSxG15a6Ry2tpG1DwP+Up/JlzZazS69tVq3GkIpZmNGo/pXIFyRVuZwBxJMJY BjWRYacUE3oXOYTTpdgMxKhSgHzj8JyTZM4zuSPHMqsQx5hmvSQl9ko5ZzF49Tfj 7ijyjodxRD1LFRVX+D8= =FB+e -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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