[PATCH libXfont] Eliminate calls back to X server or font server functions by name (v2)

[Kenneth Graunke]

On Thursday, September 10, 2015 10:44:44 AM Keith Packard wrote:
> Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Had a long hard look at the Archlinux repos and did not see (m)any
> > libxfont users outside of xserver. Would you/others know if they're
> > still a thing or they share the same faith as the print server :-)
> 
> There really shouldn't be any other than the X font utilities (bdftopcf,
> mkfontdir, etc).
> 
> I played around with getting rid of libXfont from the X server entirely;
> for font files, you really want to just use libfreetype as that already
> works for all font files, and that leaves only font server access.
> 
> It turns out that fontserver access from the X server has been broken
> for several years; I'm wondering if it might not be time to just go
> delete that code now...

Seems like a good plan...
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