(sorry for the repost, but I think this got lost in a previous thread)

Recently I did emerge -puDv --newuse world and xorg-x11 came up with
-font-server*. Since X is big, I decided not to recompile it. Two
questions. What changed the use variable? I do not recall installing or
uninstalling anything font-related manually. What if I DID re-emerge
xorg-x11? Would something break? Everything seems to work now.

Thx

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:11:38 -0400, Peter wrote:

> (sorry for the repost, but I think this got lost in a previous thread)
>
> Recently I did emerge -puDv --newuse world and xorg-x11 came up with
> -font-server*. Since X is big, I decided not to recompile it. Two
> questions. What changed the use variable? I do not recall installing or
> uninstalling anything font-related manually. What if I DID re-emerge
> xorg-x11? Would something break? Everything seems to work now.
>
> Thx

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86873

Looks like it was removed in the 2005.0 release.

I just got my 2005.0 universal X86 and i686 package CDs and am in the
process of installing them. It looks like the xorg-x11 on the package CD
is missing the font server, and may have been compiled without the
"fontserver" USE flag. I'm rebuilding from source with the USE flag. Is
this the case, and if so, was it deliberate or accidental?


------- Additional Comment #1 From Chris Gianelloni 2005-03-27 09:12 PST
-------

That was actually on purpose.

The font server is going away in future versions of xorg, so we're just
stepping ahead of the game a little bit. Client-side fonts are the way to
go and are the way things are going, so switching now is probably
favorable for future compatibility.