[Bug 40312] Please look for builtin *.fon fonts in fontdir

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40312

--- Comment #2 from Jens Reyer <jre.winesim at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Alexandre Julliard from comment #1)
> (In reply to Jens Reyer from comment #0)
> > 
> > Further we'd like to use the same fonts folder for both wine and
> > wine-development:
> > fontdir=/usr/share/wine/fonts
> 
> Why do you want that?

We'd like to avoid a duplicate installation of the Wine fonts.


> What happens if the fonts differ between versions? Which one do you use?

Currently we only provide the fonts of wine (stable), and recommend [1] to
install them for both wine and wine-development.

Currently the fonts don't differ, and between 1.6 and 1.8 there weren't many
changes in over 2 years. Given the shorter release cycle now, I currently
expect that we can stick with that. Future plans haven't been discussed. But
imo if things change noticeably we should revert to separate packages. Smaller
changes may be ignored, or backported to stable wine.

[1] Recommended packages are installed per default, but aren't mandatory.


I'm definitely interested in any feedback about this, thanks! However even
without our de-duplication goal, I'd hope for Wine to use existing variables
like fontdir directly, instead of relying on their default values.

Greets
jre

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