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bug#22100: 'font-alias' breaks other xorg font packages when installed i
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#22100: 'font-alias' breaks other xorg font packages when installed in a single profile |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Dec 2015 15:05:28 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:
> I install several xorg font packages (font-adobe75dpi, font-adobe100dpi,
> font-misc-misc and font-alias) in one of my profiles, and point my Xorg
> font path to this directory. Previously it worked fine, but after
> commit bf9655f¹, I cannot use this anymore, because the empty
> "fonts.dir" files from 'font-alias' packages override the proper
> "fonts.dir" files from the other packages.
D’oh!
> So since it was a workaround for Xorg server behaviour, I wonder would
> it be possible to modify 'xorg-server' package instead? So that along
> with directories with "fonts.dir" files, Xorg server would also handle
> directories that have "fonts.alias" files.
It seems we need something along these lines, indeed.
WDYT Eric?
Thanks,
Ludo’.