Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > Jon TURNEY wrote: >> The Bitstream Vera TTF font family has gone AWOL in the upgrade to X.Org R7.4 >> (it was previously contained in the xorg-x11-fscl package) > > Which makes me wonder if there are other such cases...
I've tried to audit for anything else missing and nothing turned up in a quick check. >> If possible, the stub xorg-x11-fscl package should be amended to pull this >> package in on upgrade. > > I disagree. In order not to defeat the purpose of modularization, the > stubs only select a bare minimum upgrade path (if anything) instead of > everything the old package once contained. If you do otherwise, then > xorg-x11-bin-dlls would have to select all 20+ libraries, xorg-x11-devel > all the libdevel packages, etc., and I don't want to go that route. > > OTOH, if a package explicitly requires a particular font (either in code > or in the app-defaults), then it should be added as a dependency to that > package. 'cd /etc/X11/app-defaults; grep -i Vera *' shows me that it is the default font for rxvt & urxvt
