[Pkg-fonts-devel] how to postinst fonts these days?

[Paul Wise]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 7:21 PM, martin f krafft <madduck at debian.org> wrote:

> Is defoma still needed? And how does fontconfig come in, which is
> recommended by our package as an alternative to x-ttcidfont-conf

As of May 2007 it was/is still needed for legacy X, GTK1 and QT apps.
Apparently it was/is also used to register fonts for ghostscript. Once
these go away or can use fontconfig, defoma can go away. Not sure if
that has happened yet. Some mails on the topic:

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fonts-devel/2007-May/000462.html
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fonts-devel/2007-May/000472.html
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fonts-devel/2007-May/000476.html
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fonts-devel/2007-May/000478.html
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fonts-devel/2007-May/000453.html
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fonts-devel/2007-May/000459.html
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fonts-devel/2007-May/000460.html
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fonts-devel/2007-May/000475.html

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bye,
pabs

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