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

[Boris Samorodov]

On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:21:47 -0400 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 19:31 +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:

> > 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.

...exept the reason that there is only fontconfig-2.2.3 for FC4?


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