Subject: Re: fonts/TTF or fonts/TrueType?
To: None <tech-pkg@NetBSD.org>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/28/2003 12:19:17
"Julio M. Merino Vidal" <jmmv@menta.net> writes:
>> Currently all font packages providing truetype fonts
>> install into the TrueType subdir; XFree86 comes with
>> a TTF dir by default.
>> 
>> Is there any reason not to make our fonts install into
>> TTF instead, too?
>
> IMO, all of them should install into TTF (no need to change X configuration
> when installing new fonts, for example).  Probably, they are installed in
> their own directory to avoid problems while generating the fonts database --
> but as we now have fonts.mk, there is now problem in sharing the same
> directory for multiple packages.

We should fix all the other fonts packages that create their own dirs
for no good reason to install into standard dirs, too.

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Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com