Is subpixel hinting of fonts disabled in openSuse 11?

The only way I could make it work was by installing smart the way “oldcpu” shows in this thread:
How To install Smart on openSUSE-11.0 - openSUSE Forums
When I used YaST to install it, it worked but for some reason I don’t know I could never DL or install freetype.
Then I used the howto mentioned in the first post and everything worked just perfect.

Cheers
Luis