Rationale for the linux-fontconfig change in the gnome 2.18 update?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 19:31 +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Hi Gnome team,
> 
> I would like to know the rationale for the install of a custom
> fonts.conf instead of linking to the FreeBSD one as before.
> 
> Are the config files incompatible and if yes which version of
> fontconfig do we need at least to be compatible? I would prefer to
> update the fontconfig somehow instead of installing a custom fonts.conf
> file.

They are very different in 2.4.  There is no longer one config file.
Instead, they are loaded like rc.d scripts in an ordered fashion from
etc/fonts/conf.d.  That said, I see no reason why the linux-fontconfig
port could not be updated to 2.4.2 as well.

Joe

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