Re: [PATCH] gnu: font-gnu-unifont: Call mkfontdir for pcf output

[Huang\, Ying]

Hi, All,

Alex Kost <address@hidden> writes:

> Danny Milosavljevic (2017-02-14 18:56 +0100) wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> One problem of this solution is that some font packages (for example,
>>> fonts-misc-misc) already have fonts.dir, to avoid conflict, it is better
>>> to remove fonts.dir in all font packages and generate fonts.dir in
>>> fonts-dir-file,  I think that is good.  But I don't know whether others
>>> think that is a good idea.
>>
>> If it can happen that multiple packages install to share/fonts/<xxx>
>> (certainly true for share/fonts/truetype and probably true for other
>> <format>-directories) and fonts.dir then is conflicting (and doesn't
>> ever contain all the entries of the directory), I think that your idea
>> is very good (and how it was done before is dead wrong).
>
> I completely agree; removing all "fonts.dir" and "fonts.alias" files
> from packages and regenerating them at profile time looks like a good
> idea to me.

Good to know this.  I will implement it as this.

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying