Re: pkg/50280 (fonts/unifont does not create fonts.dir index files)

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/50280; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/50280 (fonts/unifont does not create fonts.dir index files)
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 18:43:21 +0200

 On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 02:15:01PM +0000, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/50280; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost, tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost
 > Subject: Re: pkg/50280 (fonts/unifont does not create fonts.dir index files)
 > Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 23:12:54 +0900
 > 
 >  Seems to work fine:
 >  ---
 >  # pkg_add /cvs/netbsd/pkgsrc/fonts/unifont/work.i386/.packages/unifont-8.0.01nb1.tgz 
 >  unifont-8.0.01nb1: updating font database in /usr/pkg/share/fonts/X11/misc (x11)
 >  unifont-8.0.01nb1: updating font database in /usr/pkg/share/fonts/truetype/unifont (ttf)
 >  unifont-8.0.01nb1: updating font database in /usr/pkg/share/fonts/truetype/unifont (x11)
 >  #
 >  ---
 >  though I wonder it's better to have some MESSAGE to suggest
 >  to add ${PREFIX}/share/fonts/truetype/ to font path
 
 IMO that just adds noise. ${PREFIX}/share/fonts is the canonical
 location for fonts from pkgsrc, it is what you should have if you want
 to use fonts from pkgsrc.
 
 >  as fonts/efont-unicode/MESSAGE does
 >  (and why not ${PREFIX}/share/fonts/X11/TTF/ as all other ttf fonts)..
 
 Right, it should really be in TTF.
 
 Joerg