Fontconfig - Nov 2005 - /usr/local/share/fonts

Around 11 o''clock on Oct 26, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> That''s why I suggest to add /usr/local/share/fonts to the list of
> directories to be searched for fonts. 
That seems like a reasonable thing to add by default.  Having directories 
that don''t exist in the default search rules costs almost nothing.

-keith

Currently, there is no standard way for the system administrator to add
fonts for all users on the system. By default, fontconfig reads
directories in /usr, and ~/.fonts, but nowhere in /usr/local. Thus,
frontends or users install fonts in various places such as
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts (see KDE bug#66510), violating the FHS.

That''s why I suggest to add /usr/local/share/fonts to the list of
directories to be searched for fonts. Unless there is a better
proposition, I''ll add it to the Debian package, and I believe it would
be wise to make it a standard place.

Regards,
-- 
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