Created attachment 1926558 [details]
0001-configure.ac-search-for-the-fontrootdir-ourselves.patch

The xserver build currently requires xorg-x11-font-utils. But the only reason it does is by calling some m4 macros that are provided by that package. And those again just resolve to: adding a --with-fontrootdir to configure and defaulting (eventually) to /usr/share/fonts/X11.

The macros also allow per-font subdirectory configuration but no-one needs this (e.g. this is not available in upstream's meson.build files where those subdirectories are hardcoded).

A better approach here would be to simply handle that configure flag ourselves, hardcoding the subdirectories and dropping the need for xorg-x11-font-utils.

There's little impact for Fedora. One package during the build is arguably meh and xorg-x11-font-utils cannot be removed until the legacy fonts are dropped. It has more advantages on RHEL though where we can drop that package.

This affects e.g. tigervnc since that will no longer require that package either.