[CC'd to the fonts list, in case somebody wants to comment.]
Hi David,
DD> I just noticed that mkfontdir will remove an existing encodings.dir file
DD> even when it's not going to write out a new one.
I'm sorry, my development machine (the one that doesn't belong to my
employer) is currently dead. I really cannot check right now --
cvsweb is not a useable interface.
DD> Is this the way it should be?
Beats me.
DD> If so, I guess we should no longer be installing the
DD> encodings.dir files in the font directories like
DD> lib/X11/fonts/misc? If that's the case, I'll make the necessary
DD> change before finalising 4.2.0.
Encodings.dir files should no longer be necessary in any case --
fontenc will search the system-wide encodings directory even when
there's no encodings.dir file. However, being that shy type of
person, I was planning to remove them after 4.2.0 is released.
While I'm fairly confident everything will work without encodings.dir
files, I would not advise making the change for 4.2.0 and not giving
people time to test.
Juliusz
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