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

[Alex Kost]

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.

-- 
Alex