LRN wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 What was the rationale behind putting fontconfig cache into temporary directory?
WINDOWSTEMPDIR_FONTCONFIG_CACHE is only one possible value (aside from a real path) for <cachedir> elements on Win32. Current fontconfig also supports LOCAL_APPDATA_FONTCONFIG_CACHE; see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.fonts.fontconfig/3937.
On *nix it resides in /var/cache/fontconfig.
On Unix, users have cache directories too, as they can use their own fonts and/or fontconfig versions.
System-wide fontconfig installations are not really widely used on Windows although a sysadmin could certainly provide such a thing (maybe using a custom sysconfdir or fontconfig's feature to load its configuration from location relative to the DLL on Windows).
no decent package manager, and i don't think that applications keep track of fonts. Which means that it's important to not to lose fontcache.
fontconfig updates the cache automatically, applications should not need to do anything.
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