[arch-dev-public] fontconfig 2.10.1 will require user interaction

[Daniel Wallace]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 09:25:06AM +0200, Andreas Radke wrote:
> Am Wed, 5 Sep 2012 23:02:27 +0200
> schrieb Rémy Oudompheng <remyoudompheng at gmail.com>:
> 
> > I would simply recommend removing the offending files using rm, we
> > certainly know the list.
> > 
> > Rémy.
> > 
> 
> News draft:
> 
> fontconfig 2.10.1 update - manual intervention required
> 
> Fontconfig 2.10.1 update overwrites symlinks created by
> the former package version. These symlinks need to be removed before
> any further update:
> 
>   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-vera.conf
>   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf
>   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf
>   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-urw-aliases.conf
>   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/40-nonlatin.conf
>   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/45-latin.conf
>   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/49-sansserif.conf
>   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf
>   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/51-local.conf
>   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/60-latin.conf
>   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf
>   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-nonlatin.conf
>   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/69-unifont.conf
>   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/80-delicious.conf
>   rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/90-synthetic.conf
>   pacman -Syu
> 
> Main systemwide configuration should be done by symlinks
> (especially for autohinting, sub-pixel and lcdfilter):
>   
>   cd /etc/fonts/conf.d
>   ln -s ../conf.avail/XX-foo.conf
>   
> Check also https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration and
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts.
> 
> 
> I'd like to move it soon. It seems to work pretty solid. I only had to
> fix the dpi settings on my nvidia twinview desktop where small fonts
> suddenly were displayed a lot smaller and somehow ugly.
> 
> -Andy


can the news article bechanged to say -Syu instead of now where it says
-Sy fontconfig which we have always said was frowned upon if I remember
correctly.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=802661#p802661
-- 
Daniel Wallace
Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred)
Georgia Institute of Technology
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