Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 23:39:00 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Romain_Tarti=E8re?= <romain@blogreen.org> Cc: x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Creating ports for X11 fonts Message-ID: <46DAD914.9050103@pacific.net.sg> In-Reply-To: <20070902141858.GA89621@marvin.blogreen.org> References: <20070902141858.GA89621@marvin.blogreen.org>
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Hi,
Romain Tartière wrote:
>
> I'm preparing ports to bring additional fonts in FreeBSD. According to
> the porter's handbook [1], "If your port installs fonts for the X Window
> System, put them in X11BASE/lib/X11/fonts/local.", but when looking at
> the Makefile of some ports in x11-fonts, they install font files in
> X11BASE/lib/X11/fonts/${FONTNAME}/ with FONTNAME set to ${PORTNAME}...
>
why not use
/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/
and then another level of directories depending on the type of the font
i.e. TTF for true type fonts.
I would not use PORTNAME to create another directory. But I also see the
advantage of doing so.
Erich
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