Where should the modular X11R7 fonts get installed to?
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Sun Nov 6 15:49:02 UTC 2005
On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 10:31 -0500, Gene C. wrote:
> On Sunday 06 November 2005 10:13, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> > I'm currently of the opinion that we should install the X.Org
> > fonts into "/usr/share/fonts/X11", to have them installed into
> > an FHS compliant location, but also in their own namespace, thus
> > avoiding conflicts with other packages.
> >
> > Another possibility, is to install them into /usr/share/X11/fonts,
> > which would also be FHS compliant, and put more strength on the
> > namespacing aspect, but also grouping the X font files along with
> > other architecture independent data included with X.
>
> Either will work and I can live with either. However, I lean toward having
> ALL fonts under /usr/share/fonts and, thus, /usr/share/fonts/X11 is my
> preference.
Agreed
Jeremy
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