Microsoft's TrueType core fonts / Feature Requests / #4 support for new xorg release which deprecated xfs

There are a number of releases on the net. check out 2.0-2, 2.0-3, 2.0-5 and 2.0-7. They all address the issue. Since nobodies managing it in a common repository, there isn't necessarily a chain of descent.

Here's the changelog with links below ...

* Sat Sep 8 2012 Rob Janes <janes.rob gmail com> 2.1-1
- added EUupdate.EXE European Union Expansion Update circa May 2007
- generates distributable rpm that downloads and unpacks the fonts at
install time, not rpmbuild time
- available at https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mscorefonts2/specs/msttcore-fonts-2.1-1.spec

* Sat Sep 8 2012 Rob Janes <janes.rob gmail com> 2.0-7
- refactored sourceforge mirror stuff
- replaced wget with curl, which seems to be installed by default on fedora
- replaced ttmkfdir with mkfontscale and mkfontdir. This creates fonts.dir file
for the core X font system. ttmkfdir has been supersceded by mkfontdir - they
both create fonts.dir but mkfontdir is part of xorg-x11-font-utils.
- removed 09-msttcorefonts.conf and refactored fc-cache lines. fc-cache walks subdirectories
so the 09-msttcorefonts.conf to add the /usr/share/font/msttcore is redundant. fc-cache
indexes for the Xft font system, not the legacy core X font system.
- added 09-msttcore-fontpath.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d for core X font system
- added xset fp+ to add the fontdirectory to core X font for the current session so the installer
doesn't have to relogin.
- available at https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mscorefonts2/specs/msttcore-fonts-2.0-7.spec

* Mon Aug 15 2011 Dennis Johnson
- BuildRequires ttmkfdir, cabextract, wget
- removes Requires
- fixes sourceforge mirror
- generates 09-msttcorefonts.conf
- restores call to ttmkfdir in %install section
- available from http://fenris02.fedorapeople.org/msttcore-fonts-2.0-6.spec

* Sat Dec 11 2010 Hnr Kordewiner <hnr@kordewiner.com> 2.0-5
- move 09-msttcorefonts.conf to this spec file
- drop %{ttmkfdir} - again
- msttcore fonts history site setup at http://moin.kordewiner.com/helpdesk/fedora/mscorefonts
- available from http://moin.kordewiner.com/helpdesk/fedora/mscorefonts?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=msttcore-fonts-2.0-5.spec

* Mon Jun 07 2010 Zied FAKHFAKH <fzied@dottn.com> 2.0-3
- removed chkfontpath dependency for Fedora >= 9
- removed prerun and post chkconfig reference
- divergent development, same purpose as Andrew Bartlett's but derived from Noa Resare's 2.0-1
- available from http://moin.kordewiner.com/helpdesk/fedora/mscorefonts?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=msttcorefonts-2.0-3.spec

* Tue Jun 16 2009 Dennis Johnson
- Provides msttcorefonts
- Requires ttmkfdir, cabextract
- restores call to ttmkfdir in %install section
- available from http://fenris02.fedorapeople.org/msttcore-fonts-2.0-4.spec

* Wed Jun 25 2008 Muayyad Saleh Alsadi <alsadi gmail com> 2.0-3
- drop %{ttmkfdir} completely

* Mon Feb 18 2008 Andrew Bartlett <abartlet samba org> 2.0-2
- Make work with Fedora 9 fonts system
- available from http://moin.kordewiner.com/helpdesk/fedora/mscorefonts?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=msttcorefonts-2.0-2.spec

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