The xfree86-4.4.0-1 package thinks it owns the files /private/etc/fonts/fonts.conf and /private/etc/fonts/fonts.dtd and removes them when the package is removed.

This is bad, because these are system files that are used by a lot of other software. They are installed by Apple's BSD.pkg. I don't think Fink should touch them. In addition, the files installed by xfree86-4.4.0 are strictly identical (apart from a time stamp) to the ones coming from Apple, so one should just eliminate them from the xfree86 package.

The bug can be blamed on xfree86-4.4.0 that installs these files by default. But then xfree86 outside of Fink has no uninstaller, so the problem does not show up. In may case it showed up, because I installed xfree86-4.4.0-1 only for some testing purposes, removed it and put Apple's X11 back. After this, anything using fontconfig won't work any more. There is a fonts.conf.bak file in that directory, but the fonts.dtd file has gone for good.

I'll complain on an XonX forum, too.

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Martin


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