I'm making a port for a font, so I'm stepping into this. On Friday 20 January 2012 10:04:34 Alberto Villa wrote: > On Friday 20 January 2012 07:51:41 Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > I have seen that some ports use INSTALLS_* from bsd.xorg.mk, some > > others do > > > the mkfontscale first and directly package the fonts.scale fonts.* stuff > > in the package.
When not using XORG_CAT=font and INSTALLS_TTF=yes, ports just mimic that behaviour, with some deviations (like installing fonts.scale and fonts.dirs files) which appear not to be optimal. I will try converting some ports to bsd.xorg.mk magic and see what changes. > > (do we still need that FontPath thing?, if no then the > > pkg-message asking people to fill it should be dropped) > > I think we do, but will try and report. I'm currently running KDE with stock FontPath's, and I can use my port- installed fonts. Seems like fontconfig takes care of this. Thus, there's no pkg-message in my port. I wonder, though, if there's still software not using fontconfig: I guess that, in that case, FontPath might be required. > > If you are not willing to write the page, I'll do, but I need someone > > describing me how things are working together in the font world. > > Unfortunately I don't know this kind of stuff. If no one here does, we > might call for help in x11@ (eadler?)... I had a discussion with melflynn in #bsdports which brought to the conclusion that the magic is already there, and it should be used. I will test it, and if it works fine, I can try writing a prototype of the page. It shouldn't take too much time. By the way, I'm including him in the thread. Keep him CCed as he's not subscribed (currently). melflynn: did I say something wrong? -- Alberto Villa, FreeBSD committer <[email protected]> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~avilla Murder is always a mistake -- one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner. -- Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
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