What about improving the desktop ports consistency: task 1, the fonts

[Alberto Villa]

On Friday 20 January 2012 07:51:41 Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> I have seen that some ports use INSTALLS_* from bsd.xorg.mk, some 
others do
> the mkfontscale first and directly package the fonts.scale fonts.* stuff
> in the package.

Just a random thought: may it be that there is also no consistency in fonts 
tarballs upstream packaging?

> (do we still need that FontPath thing?, if no then the
> pkg-message asking people to fill it should be dropped)

I think we do, but will try and report.

> If you are not willing to write the page, I'll do, but I need someone
> describing me how things are working together in the font world.

Unfortunately I don't know this kind of stuff. If no one here does, we might 
call for help in x11@ (eadler?)...
-- 
Alberto Villa, FreeBSD committer <avilla at FreeBSD.org>
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