Andrew Benton wrote these words on 12/16/05 19:07 CST: > It's quite common for people to ask questions on the support list about > issues related to fonts. I feel many of these issues could be avoided if we > passed this option to fontconfigs configure script. > > --with-add-fonts=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
I suppose you'd have to explain *why* you think many of these issues could be avoided by adding this switch. To me, the current instructions are accurate and work as designed. It is my opinion that folks who have trouble with fonts and X is caused by their failure to follow the instructions. Plain and simple. > Also, I notice on the page about X Window System Components that it suggests > that people "Ensure the FontPath in 'XF86Config' or 'xorg.conf' Points to the > TrueType Font Directory". Is this a relic from the time when we used the > version of fontconfig included with XFree86? Or is it there in case people > decide not to compile fontconfig separately but decide to use the one > included with xorg/XFree? If people follow the advice in BLFS and compile > fontconfig separately then xorg.conf is not relevant as far as configuring > fonts goes. Instead of asking questions that are phrased so that nobody really knows how to answer them, why not instead propose a change, explain what it does, why you think it would be good, and then let folks decide? It sure would be a lot simpler than trying to determine what you are asking, and then how to answer. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 19:08:00 up 83 days, 4:32, 3 users, load average: 0.99, 0.79, 0.42 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
