Lovely looking Linux

[Douglas J Hunley]

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Net Llama! spewed electrons into the ether that resembled:
> 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.

with any version of X except for *most* recent CVS, the version of Freetype 
included with X is flat-out broken. And it wasn't smart enough to look at 
your system Freetype. The upcoming 4.3 fixes this. that's why pam.
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