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On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 04:40:54PM +0900, Ryan Shaw wrote:
> fonts. the ebuilds i have seen thus far 
> which install fonts (freefonts and x11fonts-jmk)
> create new subdirectories of of /usr/lib/X11/fonts.
> this seems bad though, since it means that 
> a new FontPath needs to be added to XF86Config 

What about having multiple, slightly different, copies of, say, the
"times" font from different packages. I've run into this several times.
For an example see 75dpi vs 100dpi directories, a contrived example I
admit, but one everyone has. I really think keeping font packages
separate is a good idea because eventually you're likely to run into
this I think.

Just my 2 cents :)

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--Nathaniel Grady

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