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

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>> Log:>> Do not use ttmkfdir - claimed to be obsolete, Debian patches are going offline..
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>So, fonts.enableFontDir = true is broken now. At least in stdenv-updates.
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>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.