Fonts reorganization and additions

[Ken Brown]

On 9/11/2015 3:59 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-09-11 at 15:12 -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
>> I was referring to the fact that for terminus-fonts we see
>
>>       2015-09-10 19:57           0 etc/X11/
>>       2015-09-10 19:57           0 etc/X11/fontpath.d/
>>       2015-09-10 19:57           0 etc/X11/fontpath.d/terminus:unscaled -> /usr/share/fonts/terminus
>>
>> whereas for xorg-x11-fonts-dpi75 we see only
>>
>>       2015-09-10 20:44           0 etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20 -> /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi
>>
>> and similarly for the other xorg-x11-fonts-* packages.
>>
>> I interpreted this as meaning that /etc/X11/fontpath.d wouldn't get created, but
>> maybe I was wrong.
>
> Generally, the leading directories aren't required, setup should be
> creating all parent directories regardless.
>
>> In any case, it apparently didn't get created for the OP, and I had the same
>> experience.  On the other hand, it gets created when I manually unpack the
>> tarball, so I don't know what's going on.
>
> If you remove your /etc/X11/fontpath.d and just (re)install
> xorg-x11-fonts-Type1, does this occur?  (It shouldn't.)

No, it doesn't.  So your guess below is probably correct.

> The first thing that should be checked is if the code in setup which
> allows it to unpack files with "illegal" characters in Windows also
> makes sure to create parent directories.  Based on these reports my
> *guess* is it doesn't but I haven't looked yet.

Ken


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