Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 21:12:48 -0500 (CDT) From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: X.Org conversion Message-ID: <XFMail.20040723211248.conrads@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <1090630526.44506.9.camel@leguin>
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On 24-Jul-2004 Eric Anholt wrote: > On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 17:41, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: >> >> Rather unfortunate, isn't it, that the font packages don't have a >> one-to-one correspondence between the two systems. > > Not in my opinion. I think it's an improvement, which is why I did > it. It better matches the layout in the tree, and I think makes more > sense. > I don't intend people to be switching between XFree86 and X.Org > regularly. In fact, I expect that it will be a one-way thing. True. > My point about this issue you brought up is that I don't think it's > an issue. If you want a full set of fonts, then install all the font > ports (probably even more than are distributed with X). If you just > need a scalable font to get the port to run, well, that's what the > dependency will provide. If those ports do in fact require the Type 1 > fonts, well, then that's a bug and please submit a PR. OK, I see. That makes sense. Enough about that. :-) -- Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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