While making it easier for those who want all of their fonts included in the x11 server-side font list is not an unreasonable goal, forcing them to be is unreasonable.
As someone who has run X11 regularly for over 20 years now, I absolutely do not want any type1 or SFNT fonts in my x server font path. Any app I use these days with such fonts supports client-side fonts. For the apps which require server-side fonts, the bfd fonts suit best. Putting all of /usr/share/fonts into the fontpath will only slow the X11 startup. I'd suggest either an eselect(1) driven applet to let one choose which directories to add to a single .d conf file, or perhaps a non-gentoo- specific gui app to do so. Either of those would provide exactly the right sort of configuation assistance for users who are not comfortable editing their configs in text editors. Or, if you are feeling ambitious, write an X-Font-Server which uses libfontconfig to find fonts, generates and keeps a cache of fc-pattern to/from xlfd mappings, and serves said fonts to X servers. -JimC -- James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
