Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/fonts/dejavu-ttf

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

On 7/23/21 4:30 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > Can pkgtasks/fonts.mk be adjusted to have something in the form of
> > PKG_UPDATE_FONTS_DB=auto, which would run mkfontdir if present but not
> > require it, plus logic in fonts/mkfontscale to run mkfontdir after
> > install, so installing a bunch of fonts then fonts/mkfontscale can
> > DTRT.
> It seems that the discussion was about X11BASE vs LOCALBASE.

No, we've moved on from that, see the subject. I made the X11 dependency 
optional for a font package, which Thomas said wouldn't scale.

> But, if it makes conceptual sense to have fonts installed for some uses
> without the extra metadata dirs, and we can do that in a way that will
> preserve the consistency properties that matter, that's a reasonable
> thing to consider.

Good to hear.

> What abs@ suggested seems to meet that, basically saying that output
> created my mkfontdir is a mkfontdir-world thing, detached from the
> fonts, 

Exactly. The index files produced by mkfontdir are not part of the font 
packages. By making the mkfontdir run optional, you change the 
installation procedure, not the package (content).

Cheerio,
Hauke

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