[csw-maintainers] Font packages

[Philip Brown]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski
<maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:

> Speaking of TTF fonts, is it possible to achieve the effect of making
> the font package "just work"?  I mean that the fonts would just appear
> in the font lists after installing a font package.
>
> It works that way if one puts fonts into
> /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType but the OpenCSW policy prohibits
> putting anything there.  What is the least invasive way of going about
> it?  Fiddling with configuration in /etc? (this would require X
> restart for the change to take effect) Releasing an update to
> fontconfig and adding a new fonts directory under /opt/csw?
>


Huh.
I thougth we already had an X11 fonts dir. but it would seem we do not.

Soooo... yeah, we should have an official CSW fonts dir for X.

Presumably /opt/csw/X11/fonts ?
But then for fonts that are not strictly X only, we have the question
of ..."well, what about non-X things, that still want access to true
type fonts?"

We have more than one package that provides some hooks for truetype fonts.

tetex, for one.

openoffice, for another.