On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:41:07 +0530 phanisvara das <listmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > a couple days ago, after the problematic fontconfig update was > already done, i installed a new instance of arch no a separate > partitionl (via pacman -r / chroot, from my existing, updated arch > instance). > > now i'm surprised to find that the files under /etc/fonts/conf.d/ > aren't symlinks, but real files again -- and pacman doesn't > complain...how comes? > > (this install has [testing] enabled, if that makes a difference.) > SORRY, FORGET IT. just checked again, and the file manager i was using in the new installation somehow didn't show that these are actually links. now, checking from the environment i'm used to (KDE), i see that everything under /etc/fonts/conf.d/ are symlinks, as expected... sorry for the noise... -- phani.
