Subject: An idea on font management To: None <> From: Masao
Uebayashi <> List: tech-pkg Date: 03/01/2002 01:34:35  I have an
idea that how we can manage fonts.  This idea is not yet
complete, but not so bad to be shared with you, I think.  own
domains as symbolic links.  There need some casts.  They can
look like    fonts-common - the main font manager   fonts-x
- X font manager   intlfonts    - intlfonts  The main font
package, `fonts-common', owns the main font directory and
provides the Pkgsrc font user interface (pkgfontscfg???), with
which users can view what fonts are available on the system.
`fonts-x' is kind of a driver of configuration scripts.  Or
simply a wrapper of mkfontdir and/or mkttfdir in the case of X.
`intlfonts' has real fonts, and `intlfonts-x' is a set of
symlinks from the real fonts to X font directories.  When
`intlfonts-x' is installed, it doesn't do configuration, but
kicks the `fonts-x'  Font file naming for real fonts doesn't
matter because fonts looked at by programs are sy