Paul Jewell <p...@teulu.org> skribis: > On 23/09/14 04:51, Antoine Martin wrote: > > > > Apologies if this link was posted in this thread before, I think it > > eloquently captures some of the concerns about systemd (sense of > > humour required for reading): > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/12/459 > > > > Cheers > > Antoine > Thanks for posting this link Antoine. I have not come across it > previously, but I agree entirely with the sentiments expressed in it.
The really funny thing, to me, is that, if one wanted to go head to head on the desktop and laptop with the behemoths, one of the most obvious actions would be to build up GNUstep, to actually make a working a Flash alternative, duplicate some of Microsoft’s ‘infrastructure’ crapola, and to do some other things that _supposedly_ are top priorities for the FSF. Nothing to do with Linux or init whatsoever, really. Not to mention that fontconfig _guarantees_ that people who try to use GIMP or Inkscape professionally on a POSIX platform will find a random hash instead of a font menu, for instance if they try to use Adobe Opticals. And there is no usable desktop publishing; just some semi-functional and niche applications. Again, nothing to with Linux, systemd, udev, or any of that. And one would think breaking into the Macintosh desktop market was important, since these people already were willing to use something non-Microsoft. Really I think the whole shebang, from FSF on down, gives more lip service than effort towards the foremost of its supposed goals (which are very difficult and not very computer sciency), and so free software remains the domain mostly of people who would rather use something Unix-like even if all OSes were slaveware. To keep this thread Gentoo-specific, here is my unsatisfactory but functioning fontconfig workaround, as an ebuild: https://bitbucket.org/chemoelectric/chemoelectric-overlay/src/5f1f4ef766bf7d0527670170bf625fa72bfc0dc0/media-libs/fontconfig/?at=master Most importantly the workaround disables use of some OpenType name fields by the pattern matcher, because those fields are grossly misused by fontconfig (although in a very computer sciency way -- naive pattern matching). There is some functionality added to allow playing around with search priorities, too; I forget what, because this is work from years ago already, and the software ‘just works’ so I do not fiddle with it anymore.
