Creating ports for X11 fonts

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

Romain Tartière wrote:
> 
> I'm preparing ports to bring additional fonts in FreeBSD.  According to
> the porter's handbook [1], "If your port installs fonts for the X Window
> System, put them in X11BASE/lib/X11/fonts/local.", but when looking at
> the Makefile of some ports in x11-fonts, they install font files in
> X11BASE/lib/X11/fonts/${FONTNAME}/ with FONTNAME set to ${PORTNAME}...
> 
why not use

/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/

and then another level of directories depending on the type of the font 
i.e. TTF for true type fonts.

I would not use PORTNAME to create another directory. But I also see the 
advantage of doing so.

Erich