On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Frank Cox wrote: > On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 06:24 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: >> While this may induce a reluctance to change matters too >> much, a closer to the 'leaf node' package such as freetype may >> be 'doable' if you ask, and as I recall, RFE it in their >> Bugzilla; > Upon checking the redhat bugzilla, I found that this issue has already > been posted under the Fedora category: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=612395 Reading that and the companion mentioned in the last comment, my takeaway is that fonts in fedora are (or were) bad [I trust m miller's judgment here, and have for a long time, as he is a thoughtful analyst], and that there is not much urgency in making the issue better. As I don't have the strength to follow that churn and the traffic in various venue that fedora folk use, I conclude without knowing of some un-Bugzillaed side discussion: it's not ready yet Additionally, I see mention of ghostscript, and don't they have (or had) something like a no FOSS release until after a one year timeout from their stable releases. Time and memory may be playing tricks on me here Finally, being filed in RawHide and in Fedora [note that no-one cared to uplift those bugs into the F14 product] is NOT going to get an RFE for RHEL 6 examined and decided, and if accepted, slotted for stabilization testing and documentation. File the bug on that product [rhel 6/beta] as well, and explain why it would be the right thing to do, and what the needed fix are, (preferably with patches), and why taht is a low risk, high gain decision, and it will flow into CentOS faster ;) -- Russ herrold