From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat Dec 12 12:37:54 2015 Received: (at 22100) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Dec 2015 17:37:54 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36374 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1a7o7G-0003UC-4j for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2015 12:37:54 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45528) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1a7o7D-0003Ty-Ro for 22100@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2015 12:37:52 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a7o74-0000h3-MU for 22100@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2015 12:37:46 -0500 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:47930) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a7o74-0000gz-KI; Sat, 12 Dec 2015 12:37:42 -0500 Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.83]:48798 helo=pluto) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1a7o73-0000NM-LF; Sat, 12 Dec 2015 12:37:42 -0500 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) To: Eric Bavier Subject: Re: bug#22100: 'font-alias' breaks other xorg font packages when installed in a single profile References: <874mfwexy6.fsf@gmail.com> <871tavsonr.fsf@gnu.org> <20151211200627.04c9c1b1@member.fsf.org> X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 22 Frimaire an 224 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x3D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 18:37:39 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20151211200627.04c9c1b1@member.fsf.org> (Eric Bavier's message of "Fri, 11 Dec 2015 20:06:27 -0600") Message-ID: <87d1ub36vw.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-Spam-Score: -5.0 (-----) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 22100 Cc: Alex Kost , 22100@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -5.0 (-----) Eric Bavier skribis: > Since xorg-server lacks AFAIK any environment variables to set the font > path we cannot consider moving fonts to namespaced directories. Hmm. > Instead, we might want to consider ignoring fonts.dir files from the > union build if possible and then running mkfontsdir at profile creation > time. We could always do that but, shouldn=E2=80=99t we fix the X font server ins= tead? (Easier said than done, I admit, unless there are patches floating around.) Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.