Subject: Re: XF86 4.x and international fonts
To: None <tech-x11@netbsd.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
List: tech-x11
Date: 06/06/2003 21:03:40
In article <200305062040.h46KeFt02045@s102-n054.tele2.cz>,
	Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org> writes:
> Thus, I'd like to turn HasPerl to YES in NetBSD.cf, and update
> the XF4 xfonts set to include the additional files.

Perl is no it the base system and can be at different locations. I hence
object to this change.

> Opinions?

Create a package for the international fonts like I did e.g. for the
"xcursorgen" program.

> Note: unless you volunteer to rewrite the script, don't scream "this is
> wrong".

But it is wrong.

> It's not good to have crippled xsrc set.

It's even better to have various build failures because either don't have
Perl or have a wrong version.

	Kind regards

-- 
Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/