On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 10:09:31PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Lets redirect to blfs-dev > Whoops, sorry about that, typing problem - and I now put both lists in the same place. > Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > > I forgot to add that, since I would very much like to deprecate all > > the old xorg core fonts, when I get to the end of building > > everything which I think *might* break without core fonts, I hope to > > add minimaal core fonts (libXfont, bdftopcf, adobe 100 dpi) and then > > retry all the possibly-broken packages. > > > > But there is a *lot* to try before I get to there, and I'm not sure > > if I've got the patience. > > If we were trying to build a minimal system, I would agree that the Xorg > fonts are probably not needed, but does having them really hurt anything? > It isn't about minimalism, its about modernity and getting rid of fonts which were in use in XFree86 days. For a few years I did without them completely - the only visible difference on my desktop was that the initial xscreensaver window wasa lot smaller, and any error messages from xscreensaver were also a lot smaller.
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