Comment # 2 on bug 1083212 from Dr. Werner Fink

(In reply to Stefan Br�ns from comment #0)
> Currently, the various texlive font packages create fonts.dir/fonts.scale
> using mkfontdir/mkfontscale.
> 
> This is quite pointless:
> 
> - the font packages go into /usr/share/fonts/texlive-<package>/, but this is
> outside the X server font path, which is (see /var/log/Xorg.0.log)
>  [191632.294] (==) FontPath set to:
>         /usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled,
>         /usr/share/fonts/Type1/,
>         /usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
>         /usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
>         /usr/share/fonts/ghostscript/,
>         /usr/share/fonts/cyrillic:unscaled,
>         /usr/share/fonts/truetype/,
> i.e. to use any of this fonts, the user had to additionally use xset +fp ...
> for each package
> 
> - this is for the vast majority of programs unnecessary, as it is only
> needed for server side font rendering, current programs use client side
> rendering.

I'll not drop this, see /etc/fonts/conf.avail/ and the texlive enable and
disable files below ... but this is an addon for the user him/her self as by
default this might cause trouble

(In reply to Stefan Br�ns from comment #1)
> Probably best achieved by:
> 
> - using %reconfigure_fonts_prereq as BuildRequires
> 
> - adding %link_avail_to_system_fontsconf <number>-<name).conf to the
> %install section
> 
> - using the following macro to create the %post... stanzas
>   %reconfigure_fonts_scriptlets
> 
> see e.g.
> https://rudin.suse.de:8894/package/view_file/openSUSE:Factory/cantarell-
> fonts/cantarell-fonts.spec?expand=1

I'm aware but who decides which font should go into and which should not?