On 11/23/16 12:13 PM, L. A. Walsh wrote:
4) why not run the font-config every night to check if things are up-to-date. That would have painlessly updated my cache before I next used it.
I think this is more of a packaging & integration problem than something upstream can solve. There is no central fontconfig daemon to run this task regularly, so it would fall to a system specific method - crontab, systemd timers, SMF periodic services, Windows Task Scheduler, etc. and you'd have to take into account machines that aren't running 24x7, whether it's a laptop that's carried around and not always plugged in or a desktop that gets shut off every night and powered on the next day. In the Solaris fontconfig packages I maintain, we have a service to run fc-cache at system boot and at package install time. (Running at boot is mainly to deal with installs of packages to boot environments when they're not booted, which is how most of our OS install & upgrade methods work.) We don't have it scheduled to run periodically because we don't have lots of things installing new fonts without going through our package manager, but of course, if some sysadmin did that, they can easily make their own cron job or periodic service to do it. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith@xxxxxxxxxx Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
