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� wrote:
> Luke-Jr a �crit :
>> The xorg-x11 7.4 metapackage also added a number of dependencies on
>> non-Free fonts. There have been a number of other similar issues I've
>> encountered over the past year.
> 
> I'll reply to that. The xorg-x11 meta package contains everything
> upstreams considers important, including fonts.
> 
> With the latest patches in >=x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r3, X can work
> _without_ any fonts at all. Old apps and toolkits (xterm, motif, tk,
> Xaw, ...) will look ugly as hell but they should work.
> 
> In a nutshell, don't use the xorg-x11 meta.

Do you mean:

1) don't use the xorg-x11 meta if you don't want not-completely-free fonts
or
2) don't ever use the xorg-x11 meta
?

Marijn

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Sarcasm puts the iron in irony, cynicism the steel.

Marijn Schouten (hkBst), Gentoo Lisp project, Gentoo ML
<http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-{lisp,ml} on FreeNode
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