Subject: Re: Choosing pkgsrc's version of freetype2 and friends over XFree's
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Michal Pasternak <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 02/13/2004 02:13:18
Soren Jacobsen [Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:03:11PM -0800]:
> On 02/12 23:09, Marc Recht wrote:
> > IMHO: fontconfig, Xft2, freetype2, Xrender, xcursor and Xrandr should be
> > taken from pkgsrc.
>
> freetype2 from pkgsrc (as it stands right now)? Ugh. The bytecode
> interpreter code is not built, so fonts look much uglier when using the
> pkgsrc version.
[...]
> I wonder if I'm just picky about my fonts and nobody else cares about
> this..
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2004/01/15/0013.html
About 30 days ago. And, about taking care about fonts, I haven't seen you
posting comments in that thread [;