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On 10/27/2002 04:45 AM, kwall at kurtwerks.com wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 08:59:48AM +0000, Pam R wrote:
> 
>>Interesting article on using Freetype fonts with linux. Amongst other things 
>>it says that Freetype2 should be installed _twice_; in /usr/local and in 
>>/usr/X11R6. Does anyone know why?
>>
>>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27788.html
> 
> 
> Perhaps because they don't know what they're doing? X from CVS should 
> handle all of this pretty handily.

Except that X uses an old, and broken implimentation of freetype.  Read 
the README's that come with freetype for the reasoning.  X is at fault, 
not freetype.

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