Re: Bitstream Vera fonts rpm

[Michael Fedrowitz <michaelf debian org>]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 10:13:03AM -0700, Jim Gettys hp com wrote:

 Hi,

> Some comments:
>    1) these fonts aren't just for X: they should go into /usr/share/fonts
> someplace, not in /usr/X11R6/.....
>    2) let's try to coordinate this with the Debian folks so that we don't
> have two different places for the same fonts or other gratuitous
> differences between Linux systems.  Michael Fedrowitz I believe
> is packaging them for Debian.

I've put them into /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera, other
distributions might have different layouts for /usr/share/fonts of
course.

>    3) History shows that there are bugs in fontconfig before 2.2 in
> the caching code, so sometimes a "fc-cache -f" is necessary for fonts
> to get detected properly.  Sigh...

Yes, that's what the Debian fontconfig maintainer recommended some time
ago, too, so that's what I'm doing (if fontconfig is available; for
people wanting to use them directly they're also registered with
Debian's defoma).

-Michael