Mike A. Harris (mharris(a)mharris.ca) said:
>IIRC, delegating font rendering to xfs was just a workaround
>to avoid hanging X for too long while loading fonts with lots
>of glyphs (e.g. kanji fonts).
That was more or less one of the primary reasons, however several
people for years now claim that it is no longer a real issue.
I believe one of the other reasons was that adding it to the
server's path at runtime was somewhat of a PITA (moreover,
it required mucking directly with the server config file.)
Bill