Comment 111 for bug 502610

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In , Qianqian Fang (fangq) wrote :

(In reply to comment #94)
> How is it bad? and how is it useful without the fonts?

I think the meaning of "fallback" is that when something does not exist, something else fill in the place. That is EXACTLY what fontconfig is designed for: when a font is not installed, some other designated font will be used as alternative.

> that looks like you missed the point.
> the certain config files should be provided by the font upstream.

I agree, but that does not justify why "font preference orders" should be provided by the font itself. In fact, fontconfig has been doing this job since day 1, and it is doing ok. The only thing is to refine it.

> it's the above point and what Fedora is trying. the unnecessary
> built-in rules are worse than nothing.
>

how are these rules unnecessary? tell me.