Re: Fink and X11
Re: Fink and X11
- Subject: Re: Fink and X11
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:47:08 -0800
MacPorts doesn't touch stuff outside of /opt/local unless it
absolutely needs to. I think the cases I've seen have all been /
Library/Launch* and various terminfo files (for urxvt for example).
On Feb 25, 2008, at 07:08, Martin Costabel wrote:
I can also only guess: The main interest of adding additional hooks
seems to be to have more possibilities of adding fonts to the X font
path, and this in a stable way that does not depend on the ever-
changing fontconfig system. I have not felt the need for this in
recent versions of Apple's X11, but Japanese users (which is where
this idea is coming from) may have other and more serious needs for
additional fonts in X11.
Fontconfig's configuration system for setting font directories has
never changed (atleast since version 1.0).
The xset to set the font path in xinitrc there is actually setting the
server font path for server-side fonts (nothing to do with fontconfig).
I thus reluctantly said yes, as perhaps the worst of the two
options offered.
As my previous email surely should have told you, I would rather
NOT have to make such a choice with no good answer.
I understand your reluctance, and I am uneasy about this, too. Fink
has, in general, a rather strict policy of not touching anything
outside its own installation tree. The main question is who "owns"
that script.
The X11 xinitrc script has, AFAICT, not changed in many years,
except for Apple's replacing the call to twm by quartz-wm. The
10.5.2 update still has that old xinitrc script. It is only very
recently that Jeremy has put in a new version that, essentially,
contains a hook to a font-loader script, just as Aida's modified
xinitrc does. The two font-loaders are, of course, very different,
and it would indeed be good if there were some discussion about this
idea that seems to have come up simultaneously at different places.
In particular there seems to be a need for a non-system, but system-
wide startup script or configuration file, a kind of middle layer
between the system xinitrc and the user ~/.xinitrc, just as there
is /Library in between /System/Library and ~/Library.
Could someone please tell me the email address of the fink dev who is
responsible for these fink changes? There's no need to clobber
eachother, and I am more than willing to put in the necessary hooks in
a way that will work for all parties involved.
--Jeremy
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