[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r24638 -

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 08:21:40AM +0300, 7c6f434c at mail.ru wrote:
> >> Log:>> Do not use ttmkfdir - claimed to be obsolete, Debian patches are going offline..
> >
> >So, fonts.enableFontDir = true is broken now. At least in stdenv-updates.
> >
> >What we have to do then? Is xorg loading fonts in its font server in any other
> >way?
> 
> Well, we still use mkfontscale (which is claimed to obsolete ttmkfdir). Even with
> ttmkfdir we had problems with, for example, xfontsel not seeing the TrueType fonts.
> 
> Programs using Xft allow specifying fonts as "xft:Font name:pixelsize=12" anyway.

Regarding the talk on irc, I confirm that nixos-stdenv-updates works fine with
enableFontDir = true, once I have updated it from nixos trunk.

Thank you,
Lluís.