[arch] What Gives?

[John Lowell]

What in heaven's name is going on with our package testing? Are we 
simply throwing binaries out there without making sure the related 
package builds work properly?

Doing a routine update tonight, after building the latest fontconfig 
with makepkg, I see that many of my fonts are no longer available to 
mozilla and other programs. Lucida, helvetica, gone, arial nowhere to be 
found. I try to build the new iputils - one of our base packages - and 
it breaks before I have a chance to sneeze.

Over the last couple of months, this kind of thing has just gone on and 
on. There were several months there that I was unwilling to do updates 
at all, afraid that like the openssl episode or the libXinerama.so 
debacle, I'd really trash things. This is the new, emerging linux 
powerhouse with seventeen cvs repositories? If so I, for one, would 
prefer to see us keep our focus right-sized, something that's clearly 
not happening now, and just execute well on the small stuff. Maybe if we 
could pursuade a few of the more locquacious and opinionated "experts" 
on our forums to do some package testing for us instead of "shoulding" 
all over one another all the time, we could actually justify the good 
opinion so many were forming of us late last year. 

That said, short of going back to a reinstallation of the 0.7 livecd and 
spending the next several months in prayer, what can be done to get 
these fonts working properly again? Do I need to remove fontconfig and 
install the earlier package, if such can be done at all? Attempts at 
reinstalling the font packages and running fc-cache -fv have achieved 
nothing.

jlowell