On Wednesday 05 October 2011 00:01:04 Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > On 10/04/11 23:13, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 October 2011 22:36:08 Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > >> On 10/04/11 14:45, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >>> i'd like to run fc-cache against a different tree than "/". a lot of > >>> utils have a "--root" flag for this sort of thing. this is useful for > >>> distros which are preparing packages for installation. it avoids > >>> having to run fc-cache on every system that deploys the fonts. > >>> > >>> so if i ran `fc-cache -s --root /a/b/c`, it would look at > >>> /a/b/c/etc/fonts/ instead of /etc/fonts/. then every dir that those > >>> config files said to use would transparently be prefixed with /a/b/c. > >>> so if my config said <dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir> and > >>> <cachedir>/var/cache/fontconfig</cachedir>, it would instead scan > >>> /a/b/c/usr/share/fonts and store the cache in > >>> /a/b/c/var/cache/fontconfig. > >>> > >>> how hard do people envision this being ? > >> > >> Why can't you just do "chroot /a/b/c fc-cache -s"? > > > > not everyone has that access. building as root is a bad idea. > > Fair enough. > > It's not hard adding this to the library. You would need to add something > like FcConfigSetRoot() / FcConfigGetRoot(), and modify the five or so > locations that files are accessed. ok ... i just wanted to make sure people were generally on board with the idea before spending time coding up something :). -mike
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