Summary: | 2005.0 GRP xorg-x11 missing font server?? | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Release Media | Reporter: | M. Edward Borasky <znmeb> |
Component: | Everything | Assignee: | Gentoo Release Team <releng> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | 2005.1 | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
M. Edward Borasky
2005-03-27 08:59:44 UTC
That was actually on purpose. The font server is going away in future versions of xorg, so we're just stepping ahead of the game a little bit. Client-side fonts are the way to go and are the way things are going, so switching now is probably favorable for future compatibility. It begs the question then, if xorg-x11 is re-emerged with emerge -uD --newuse world, will it break existing installations? I have held off recompiling until I can understand the ramifications of omitting the font-server. Thx Well, if you did that, after adding font-server to your USE, it would build the font server. It would be no different than if you compiled xorg without the font-server yourself, then added it later. It is perfectly safe (but we still discourage its use). I apologise for this bugspam, but I wish to close this product, so I need to move all the bugs. |