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On Tuesday 01 October 2002 10:01 pm, Jim Hayward wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 18:16, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> > Not sure what you mean by 'compatible with'. AFAIK, X font
> > installation is unchanged for quite some time.
>
> If this rpm has not been changed since the 7.x release it will not work
> on 8.0. XftConfig, where Michael's old font installer addded the
> fontpath, is obsolete.
>
>  cat /etc/X11/XftConfig.README-OBSOLETE
> # IMPORTANT NOTICE about XftConfig:
> #
> # The XftConfig config file has been deprecated and obsoleted by
> # /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, which is the new font configuration file for
> Xft2, and
> # is provided by "fontconfig".  A backward compatible Xft1 library is

Thanks Jim. I knew I had seen some info about font handling having been 
changed in the release notes that were attached to the release 
announcment.

I'll see what I can do about a fix.

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