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

[Colin Guthrie]

Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> I don't know if we're just bike shedding here or if there is a real
> problem with symlinks, but suspect the former.  My motivation for
> using symlinks was that I was just copying the idea with symlinking
> init.d scripts from rcN.d, which seem to work well enough.  Also,
> using stub files is more hassle than it's worth; I have to do open;
> read; close, ie three syscalls, three failure paths, whereas just
> readlink is just one.  And finally, parsing stub files is a little too
> close to a new config file format, something I desparately want to
> avoid.

Can't argue with that :D

> I've committed the last version of the symlink patch and am releasing
> libXfont 1.2.9 now.

Great. Thanks for your work. It will make managing fonts a lot simpler :)

Col