Keith Packard wrote: > On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 20:18 -0400, Patrick Lam wrote: > > >>I guess caches should be invalid if the configuration is newer than the >>cache. Looks like I'll have to cook up a patch to do that, or to put >>all fonts in the cache and filter later. fc-cache puts all fonts in the >>cache, but this is not true of the global cache. Suggestions? > > > The goal was to make the caches independent of the configuration so that > changes in the configuration wouldn't affect cache validity. Otherwise, > we'd have a nightmare on our hands. > > Can we do this? I think that I can make fontconfig load all fonts to put them in the global cache. But maybe it's not such a disaster to have the *global* cache be dependent on the config files; it might beat the alternative, which is to load all fonts into memory and then filter through FcConfigAcceptFont afterwards on each run. Per-directory caches are always independent of the configuration. pat
