Re: When is a font server needed?

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Thu, 06 Sep 2001 10:51:47 +0200 Marco Fioretti
<marco fioretti eri ericsson se> imparted to us:

> Hello,
> 
> I keep reading around about how to configure a font server to do
> this and that. My question is, do you really need a font server
> on a stand-alone machine? If not, which packages/files can you
> remove to save disk space?

If you run X, you'll need it or X won't start.

If not running X, remove XFree86-xfs and
XFree86-<anything_related_to_fonts>. You can likely remove anything else
XFree86-related with no X.

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