I have internet access again and can commit some patches... Matthias Clasen wrote: > [fc-cat goes in an infinite loop] It looks like Mike Fabian got that one. I'll take a look at it now. > It seems to me that all the recent breakage is due to the global cache. > It just complicates the caching logic a lot. Would be it be too hard to just demand > fc-cache being run after installing new fonts ? We do that for everything else thats > cached, like icon themes, mime data, etc... The recent breakage is, in my opinion, due to putting directory caches into /var/cache/fontconfig and the resulting changes in global and directory cache files needed to support this. I'm not sure that this was, in fact, an improvement, and complicated a lot of the code; it helps satisfy some FHS constraint, but seems to be hard to get right and is still conceptually a bit problematic. It was much simpler to put font caches in their own directories. I don't think it's appropriate to demand that fc-cache be run after installing new fonts, especially since fc-cache runs as root and users can install their own fonts. That would make fontconfig worse than it is now. pat _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
