Re: multiple downloads of fcpackage

[Ben Taylor <highlander7 cox net>]

Andrew Gaffney wrote:

> I was building garnome on my Slackware 8.1 box, and I noticed 
> something off. When you do make install in meta/gnome-desktop, 
> fcpackage gets downloaded and build like 4 separate times. Any reason 
> for this?
It's a known bug, because Xft, Xrender, fontconfig and Xft1 are separate 
entities.  One way around
the download is to use the "make garachive" feature to move the sources 
into a centralized area
so you don't have to download it repeatedly.  

Ben