Re: [gentoo-dev] Fonts, Xfree, Linux

["Ian Phillips" <ianp@tibco.com>]

> had a look at it (popt is a required dependency for it), and I've
> asked Graham (vladimir@g.o) to come up with a perl equivalent for it.  To me, it seems that coding that in C and using popt is overkill.

Surely Python would be more Gentoo-ish?

As to files in /etc, how about this as a first hack: modify etc-update
so that an ebuild can mark a file in /etc as requiring manual attention
and possibly an optional short text message. I'm not sure of the best
way to do this, but maybe if etc-update finds an update file with some
magic string as the first line then it will say that the file needs
attention. The file could just be a pointer to the user to run
GentooFontUpdater or whatever the new tool is called.

It seems (more than) a little hacky, but I think that not touching files
in /etc is a good rule, and think it's worth putting some effort into a
way of not breaking it.

Ian.

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