[gentoo-dev] Re: XFree 4.3.0 and XftConfig

[Tomas Styblo <tripie@cpan.org>]

* FRLinux <frlinux@frlinux.net> [Fri, 09 May 2003]:
> Actually, i installed manually vera fonts on my system
> (4.3.0-r2) and copied as instructed the local.conf from the
> package to /etc/fonts, ran fc-cache and it worked. 

Right, that's how I suppose it should work.

> It has got nothing to do with xftconfig which is my second
> point, xft package is *incompatible* with xfree 4.3.0-r2 (as
> mentionned in the ebuild) and if you upgraded from 4.2.1 (as i
> did), it doesn't uninstall it (tried that on 2 gentoo 1.4rc3
> from 4.2.1 to 4.3.0-r2) and i had to : emerge unmerge xft (which
> contains xft-config)

But I am not talking about the xft package. I've never installed it. 

The problem is that XFree ebuild installs the XftConfig file
which is no longer used by the Xft library shipped with XFree.

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