Re: Unix Fonts conflict with FHS...

Darren O. Benham (gecko@benham.net)
Thu, 15 Apr 1999 14:03:10 -0700

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On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 11:49:13AM -0400, paulad@outlyer.org wrote:
> Anyway, I'm one of the package developers for Stampede Linux, and we're developing binary packages for AbiWord (we like to stay on the cutting edge) Anyway, one of the problems is the new font system. Ideally, there would be a way to set the default font paths... AND it wouldn't involve files in /usr/AbiSuite. AFAIK, this is contrary to the FHS we (and many others) are striving for. For our system, until 0.5.3, all fonts were in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/AbiWord, which is convenient for multi-user systems, and for maintenance... however recent versions ignore the ABIWORD_FONTPATH environment variable, and require that EACH user have an .AbiSuite/Abi*.Profile file in their home directory. I have one suggestion. Perhaps a global configuration file in /usr/<somedir>/share/AbiSuite contains a default AbiWord.Profile file that would be installed with any user running AbiWord for the first time.
You *could* edit the pref C file to point the path where you want the
default to be when the ./AbiSuite/* config files gets created... that's how
Debian handled it.

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