[PATCH libXfont] Add a new 'catalogue' FPE, which takes font paths from symlinks in a dir.

Kristian Høgsberg krh at bitplanet.net
Tue Jun 19 18:57:38 PDT 2007


On 6/19/07, Kristian Høgsberg <krh at bitplanet.net> wrote:
> On 6/19/07, Ademar de Souza Reis Jr. <ademar at mandriva.com.br> wrote:
> > Good work!
> >
> > After an initial test/review everything looks fine. I'll add it
> > to our package to get additional tests. Do you know if someone is
> > working on adding support for catalogue's dir into chkfontpath?
> > :-)
>
> I was thinking that we could just drop chkfontpath, or replace it with
> a tiny command line compatible shell script or a spec file macro if
> absolutely necessary. But I'm really more in favor of just dropping it
> along with xfs.  Our xorg-x11-fonts RPM does manually sed calls on the
> xfs config file to work around chkfontpath problems, and I'm looking
> forward to just ripping that out.

Oh, and if nobody objects or suggests improvements within the next
couple of days, I'll commit it an cut a libXfont release.  There,
you've been warned.

Kristian


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