>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Packard <keithp@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Keith> That's just for directory names that come from the user though,
Keith> and there aren't very many places where we have those aside
Keith> from fc-cache.
Don't forget fc-cat.
Another issue since the change from cache files in the same dirs as
the fonts to a central cache dir is that fc-cache could not (I've not
yet tested fc-2_4-keithp) cache dirs that were neither in fonts.conf
<dir/> entries nor subdirectories thereof.
Ie, you couldn't preemptively cache directories.
As a concrete example, I keep several poorer-quality collections under
/usr/local/share/fonts, and add one or two at a time whenever I want
to use fonts from them. I used to just run:
,----
| fc-cache -fv /usr/local/share/fonts
`----
to ensure the cache files were up to date. But when I upgraded to a
version that used /var/cache/fontconfig I had to add /usr/local/share/fonts
to fonts.conf to run fc-cache on it, just to remove it again afterwords.
(On a box like my laptop -- harware limited to a half gig of ram, and
quite slow pata drives -- it is important not to speculatively have
every possible font dir in fonts.conf; even with mmap(2)ed cache files
it takes up too much ram.)
It would also be useful for package management code to be able to
generate the cache files when a font directory is installed, even
if that directory is not yet referenced in fonts.conf.
-JimC
P.S. I presume master is matches CVS HEAD? And so fc-2_4_branch
and fc-2_4-keithp are the interesting branches?
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