On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:37 AM, Alan Coopersmith
<Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
> Moinak Ghosh wrote:
>>    I am guilty of not sticking to schedules. A bunch of things came up
>> at work and conspired to hog my precious time. Anyway typically
>> there are a few font families in the Xorg tree: adobe, arabic, bh,
>> bitstream, misc, sun, liberation, DejaVu etc. So my suggestion is to
>> have package boundaries based on these families and another package
>> for miscellaneous stuff related to fonts. I estimate a part-time effort
>> of about 5 days to get the packages done.
>
> Remember that if you split fonts in the same directory across multiple
> packages, those fonts either become invisible to apps using the old X
> font system (i.e. non gtk/qt/Xft apps), or you have to invent a SMF
> service to replace the old SVR4 mkfontdir class action scripts.

   Thanks for the note. SMF service appears to be the only solution
   to this.

Regards,
Moinak.

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