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. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
