rolled back to 2.1-r1 and it works fine.. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge /usr/portage/media-libs/fontconfig/fontconfig-2.1.94-r1.ebuild Actual Results: The helvetica font Does not work Expected Results: Helvetica font i have i have /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/helv018-*.pcf.gz <guessing thats the fonts
the pcf.gz were disregarded i think because they are pretty useless to most people in the standard config. I think fontconfig 2.2 will do something about this, since more people asked for it. It will be out anytime soon now. You can add them by adding <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi</dir> to your local.conf for now. Problem is that with disregarding some fontpaths we also disregard some possibly 'harmful' fonts which cause ugly fonts for users. Adding the root path again will also inlude these fonts.
Ok thanx... I will play around with it a bit ;P
ok in the new fontconfig (2.2.0) i'm gonna add /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi to the basic setup as well. Altough they look pretty bad here. As long as we can't exclude dirs, this should do.