After emerging XFree-4.3.0-r3 the fonts.alias file from my /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/lfp-fix directory has disappeared. AFAIR the same happened the last time I upgraded X. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge x11-base/xfree Actual Results: The fonts.alias file disappeared. Expected Results: Left fonts.alias alone. Portage 2.0.49-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gentoo-r7) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor distcc 2.9 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs distcc" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.linux.no/ http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex svga tcltk guile ruby mysql X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis motif opengl mozilla gphoto2 cdr postgres -java xml tiff -kde qt gnome gtk dvd"
Fixed in 4.3.0-r5 and -r6 as well as xorg-x11-6.7.0. Sorry for the delay on this, it didn't take top priority.