[Fontconfig] Proposal: the restructure of the configuration numeric prefix

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Tue Feb 16 23:04:47 PST 2010


On 02/15/2010 06:34 PM, James Cloos wrote:
> If fedora has problems with any of the upstream conf files, it should
> simply not link them into conf.d.
> 
> There is no need to restructure upstream to appease one distribution.
> 
> In fact, there is no need for fedora — or any other dist — to link in
> any of the upstream config files.  Dists can and should modify configs
> to suit their and their users’ own needs.

I'm hugely interested in making the upstream configuration just work though.
No point in shipping default conf that sane distros are not going to use.

behdad

> -JimC


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