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From: "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:21:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinfJ1AapMT_iTjS4h8xpBS9L+BOqBc2MQ0R7JBb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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I just got this elog from updating my gentoo system.  It's from
freetype-2.4.2:
---------------------------- begin ------------------------------
LOG (postinst)

The TrueType bytecode interpreter is no longer patented and thus no
longer controlled by the bindist USE flag.  Enable the auto-hinter
USE flag if you want the old USE=bindist hinting behavior.
----------------------------- end  -------------------------------

So I looked up "auto-hinter" in the flagedit(1) program. It says:
>   auto-hinter: Local Flag: Use the unpatented auto-hinter instead of the
(recommended) TrueType bytecode interpreter (media-libs/freetype)

The placement of the "(recommended)" is just a bit ambiguous.  Is it
recommenting the unpatented  auto-hinter, or making a recommendation of the
TrueType bytecode interpreter?  I'm guessing the former, but not with
complete confidence.

I want clear font rendering, which I guess means using hints, and I've added
the auto-hinter use-flag in package.use.

I hope I guessed right.
-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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             reply	other threads:[~2010-08-19 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-19 20:21 Kevin O'Gorman [this message]
2010-08-19 22:01 ` [gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages Neil Bothwick
2010-08-19 23:38 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-08-20  7:20   ` Dale
2010-08-20  8:01     ` Neil Bothwick
2010-08-20  8:39       ` Dale
2010-08-20  8:03   ` Neil Bothwick
2010-08-20  9:01     ` Alan McKinnon
2010-08-20  9:23       ` Neil Bothwick
2010-08-20 14:53     ` Peter Humphrey
2010-09-02 16:15       ` Neil Bothwick
2010-08-20  9:06   ` Alan McKinnon
2010-08-20 13:20   ` Bill Longman
2010-08-20 14:58     ` Peter Humphrey
2010-08-20 15:12       ` Bill Longman
2010-08-20 15:40       ` Kevin O'Gorman
2010-08-20 17:07         ` [WAY OT] Parenthese, was " Mike Edenfield
2010-08-20 19:00           ` Alan McKinnon
2010-08-20 19:32             ` [gentoo-user] Re: [WAY OT] Parenthese Alex Schuster
2010-08-20 20:14               ` Alan McKinnon
2010-08-21  9:53                 ` Peter Humphrey

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