De: "Hans de Goede" <hdegoede(a)redhat.com>
Hi,
On 10/30/2014 11:01 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Can some font experts weigh in on how to properly solve the first
issue
> without triggering the second?
The first issue can be fixed by patching luit to search under
/usr/share/X11/fonts
rather then /usr/share/fonts/X11, my thinking behind adding the symlink was that
their will likely be other apps with the same problem as luit.
The root of the problem of course is that luit and other similar apps have still not be
updated to use fontconfig properly, 12 years after it was introduced. And every time
someone adds a hack to avoid fixing those apps it breaks something else.
I personnaly think that short of making them fail fast and hard nothing will convince
their upstreams to look at fontconfig and till then they will continue to produce side
effects on the rest of the system. You get all the problems that caused fontconfig to be
written in the first place, without any hope of improvement (since the solution is to use
fontconfig, it was written to handle font discovery sanely).
Regards,
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