It looks good! I think it's a good thing to make all fonts have a union location like /usr/share/fonts. CR #6900593 have beening handling by Hnhn. It will migrate G11n fonts to /usr/share/fonts as well.
Regards, William Alan Coopersmith ??: > I'm working on integrating the updated font packages from the X.Org X11R7.5 > release, and since those involve big changes anyway, I'm fixing several other > issues with our font packaging at the same time. What follows are my current > plans - they're open to change still if you've got objections or better ideas, > but I'd like to deliver to 129 next week, so sooner would be better than later > to bring those up. (Of course, that just sets in stone the delivery for 129, > and we can change again for later builds before 2010.03 ships.) > > - Unifying font packages: > > Currently SXCE includes SUNWxwfnt, SUNWxwcft, and SUNWxwoft for font > packages from X - these contain a subset of the current X.Org fonts, > not including many of the additional fonts or character sets added in > XFree86 or later X.Org release, but also include a mix of encumbered > fonts. Because of this, OpenSolaris releases have included a competely > separate set of font packages, the FSWxorg-font* packages that are > completely open source and include some fonts/encodings not in SXCE. > > I've split all the open source fonts out of the old X font packages, > so that there is no overlap now between the two sets. The open source > packages, renamed to SUNWfont-* and SUNWttf-*, will be delivered to > both SXCE and OpenSolaris. SUNWxwfnt & SUNWxwoft will be delivered > just to SXCE, but will be able to be installed alongside the open source > versions without any conflicts. (Most of SUNWxwcft went into the > open source packages, the rest was merged into SUNWxwfnt.) > > The new set of font package names: > SUNWfont-daewoo-misc > SUNWfont-isas-misc > SUNWfont-jis-misc > SUNWfont-misc-ethiopic > SUNWfont-misc-meltho > SUNWfont-xorg-cyrillic > SUNWfont-xorg-core > SUNWfont-xorg-iso8859-1 > SUNWfont-xorg-iso8859-2 > SUNWfont-xorg-iso8859-3 > SUNWfont-xorg-iso8859-4 > SUNWfont-xorg-iso8859-9 > SUNWfont-xorg-iso8859-10 > SUNWfont-xorg-iso8859-13 > SUNWfont-xorg-iso8859-14 > SUNWfont-xorg-iso8859-15 > SUNWfont-xorg-iso8859-16 > SUNWttf-bh-luxi > SUNWttf-bitstream-vera > SUNWttf-dejavu > SUNWttf-google-droid > SUNWttf-liberation > > (As you can see I also did a little more refactoring to break them out a > little more for easier customization/minimization.) > > - Adopting new standard locations: > > The X11R7.5 font packages have changed their default install locations > to match where most Linux distros already installed them, and where we'd > decided to move them as part of PSARC/2009/482: Obsolescence of /usr/X11 > > The fonts will now be installed into subdirectories of /usr/share/fonts. > > The bitmap & Type1 fonts that have traditionally been delivered with X > will be found in these directories: > > /usr/share/fonts/X11: > 100dpi 100dpi-ISO8859-* 75dpi 75dpi-ISO8859-* > cyrillic ethiopic misc misc-ISO8859-* > daewoo jiskan syriac > > TrueType fonts (which X didn't traditionally deliver) will be in per > family subdirectories of /usr/share/fonts/TrueType, such as: > > /usr/share/fonts/TrueType: > bh-luxi bitstream-vera dejavu google-droid liberation > > The encumbered fonts from SUNWxwfnt & SUNWxwcft will be delivered under > /usr/share/fonts/sun to avoid clashes. (Currently we're left with just > F3bitmaps and HTbdf subdirectories there.) > > - Uncompressing bdf fonts: > > X can handle bdf fonts either uncompressed or compressed with one of > compress, gzip or bzip. > > During Solaris 10 development we changed from .Z to uncompressed for > these fonts, since that improved performance, didn't result in much > increased disk space usage (many of the fonts were small enough that > the difference between compressed and uncompressed was less than a > 8k block), and reduced install media size (since the SVR4 packages > could bzip2 the uncompressed fonts much more effectively than the > compressed ones). > > When we upgraded the fonts from X11R6 to X11R7 versions, they got > gzipped, since that was automatically done in the upstream sources. > For X11R7.5, I fixed the configure scripts upstream to allow a > configure-time choice of compression methods, and have set our builds > to use --without-compression. This should allow better compression > and deduplication at the filesystem level, especially when dealing with > the fonts that are built into files for each ISO-8859-* locale, since > the characters for 0-127 should be the same in each variant of the font. > (ISO-8859-* locales all map to ASCII for 0-127, and differ in the values > for characters 128-255.) > > This will also reduce unnecessary IPS thrashing, now that we'll be > delivering these packages to the main Nevada dock, and thus have to > have both SPARC & x86 SVR4 package deliveries, and redeliver every > build. The uncompressed fonts should checksum consistently between > platforms & builds, while the compression metadata would cause different > checksums, and thus detection of changes where none really occurred. > (Handling gzip metadata is IPS RFE #6189) > > -- ============================================================== William Xue Asian Globalization Center Sun Microsystems China Engineering & Research Institute (Office Phone): (86)10-8261-8200 ext. 83958 (Direct Line) : (86)10-6267-7958 (Email) : Wei.Xue at Sun.com (My Blog) : http://blogs.sun.com/weixue ==============================================================
