[Pkg-fonts-devel] Please check reverse dependencies before moving files around

Fabian Greffrath fabian at greffrath.com
Thu Oct 27 08:40:16 UTC 2011


Am 27.10.2011 05:09, schrieb Paul Wise:
> Use fontconfig to find the filename corresponding to a font name and
> pass that filename to your renderer at runtime.

AFAICT fontconfig will also fall back to any "Sans" font if it does 
not find "Liberation Sans". So I think this is the way to go for 
packages that do not want to introduce a whole toolkit just for font 
handling.



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