Subject: Re: About the location of TrueType fonts
To: Julio Merino <jmmv@hispabsd.org>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/22/2002 10:54:07
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Julio Merino wrote:

> On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:09:22PM +0800, Rui-Xiang Guo wrote:
> > > I think we should consider about our ttf pkg's location of installation.
> > > I suggest to install them into new directory:
> > > /usr/pkg/share/fonts/TrueType/ (or truetype/, TTF/, ttf/ ?)
> > > For example, if someone wants to install ttf for ghostscript and he doesn't
> > > have X on his system, thus USE_X11BASE=yes will be pain to him.
> > > If we install ttf into /usr/pkg/share/fonts, then we can use these fonts well
> > > both with ghostscript and X.
>
> Maybe the problem can be solved with something like xpkgwedge?

There's no reason the fonts can't just go in ${LOCALBASE}. There's
precedent, already, in the "bochs" package.

Frederick