Hi,
On 10/31/2014 10:20 AM, nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net wrote:
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).
Erm, luit is not looking for font files at all, it is an encoding translator, as
such it wants the encoding files found under /usr/share/X11/fonts/encodings. Which
it expects to be under /usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings. Fixing this in luit is trivial,
but I was afraid other apps would have similar hardcoded paths, so the symlink
seemed like a good idea.
Sorry for the problems I've caused by adding the X11 symlink I'll push an
updated package reverting it asap.
Regards,
Hans