Bug 48926 – duplicate fonts in corefonts and xfree

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Michal Luczak 2004-04-25 03:42:50 UTC]

ls -la /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/timesi.ttf /usr/share/fonts/corefonts/timesi.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 247092 lut  4 15:53 /usr/share/fonts/corefonts/timesi.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 247092 lut 17 15:26 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/timesi.ttf

epm -qf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/timesi.ttf
xfree-4.3.0-r5
epm -qf /usr/share/fonts/corefonts/timesi.ttf
corefonts-1-r1


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. ls -l /usr/share/fonts/corefonts/*.ttf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/*.ttf


Actual Results:  
Why we have the same fonts in two packages in different localization ?

Expected Results:  
I see two possibilities 
1. Package corefonts should conflicts with xfree
2. in case when xfree is already installed there should be a symlink from 
/usr/share/fonts/corefonts/ to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/ 
3. and vice versa ... 


Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0,
2.6.5-rc2)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.5-rc2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.9
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=pentium4 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/lib/jboss /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=pentium4 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ http://gentoo.inode.at/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync2.pl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups curl encode esd foomaticdb gdbm
gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla
mpeg mysql ncurses nls odbc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres
python quicktime readline sasl sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex
tiff truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Christoph Brill (egore) (RESIGNED) 2004-04-25 04:57:06 UTC]

fonts should be always stored in /usr/share/fonts

the new xfree86-r6 already does this. IIRC only symlinks are stored in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts. wait for xfree86-r6 to become stable

[Comment 2 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2004-09-30 14:03:19 UTC]

Not going to fix this until X fonts are modularized.

[Comment 3 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-08-20 12:00:07 UTC]

reopening

[Comment 4 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-08-20 12:00:23 UTC]

This is now properly fixed. Closing