On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 13:33 +0200, Tilman Sauerbeck wrote:
Hi guys, fontconfig 2.4 has been released recently, and I just updated opt/fontconfig accordingly.
I didn't commit the changes yet, though, because I don't run opt/x11 and thus I cannot test whether it will work for xorg 6.8. Can someone please test the attached diff with opt/x11? Thanks. I don't expect breakage, but better safe than sorry. (This situation sucks a bit. If anyone thinks this sucks too much, let me know and I'll see to install X11R6 here as well.)
I've been using it for a couple of days too (and now 2.4.1) without any problems whatsoever. But I'm also not using X11R6 :( The lack of replies sort of begs the question of when your xorg ports will move into the official repos.
fontconfig's configuration scheme has been extended. Instead of putting all kinds of settings into local.conf, fontconfig how ships with a set of configuration files (/etc/fonts/conf.avail) that can be symlinked to /etc/fonts/conf.d to enable them. This means that only more exotic settings will have to be made via local.conf, for the usual suspects, you can just symlink the file.
This somewhat collides with pkgutils' upgrade feature though. Imagine that after installation, you removed some of these symlinks to adjust fontconfig to your needs. Then, a few months later, you upgrade fontconfig to the latest version, and it will install the symlinks again :x
Is this acceptable?
Perhaps that "INSTALL ... NO" feature you've added to pkgutils could be used for more than just junk files :)