[arch-general] Why both fonts.dir and fonts.scale?

[David C. Rankin]

Listmates,

	Picking through the font configuration, I have run across a curiosity, why do
the font directories have both a fonts.dir file and a fonts.scale file. The
page: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_Font_Configuration suggests that
you run mkfontscale and mkfontdir on each of the directories. The related files
fonts.scale and fonts.dir are the same:

[20:52 supersff:/etc/fonts] # l /usr/local/share/fonts/
<snip>
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  43730 2009-04-28 20:52 fonts.dir
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  43730 2009-04-28 20:52 fonts.scale

[20:52 supersff:/etc/fonts] # diff /usr/local/share/fonts/fonts.dir
/usr/local/share/fonts/fonts.scale

	Why do we need both?

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