> If your program detects duplicates updates the mtime of the directories, > that triggers to rebuild caches as I said earlier. that isn't "nothing > changed". > > Anyway, we may need to think about this again. for instance, adding an API > to enable/disable the cache updates automatically in fontconfig or get rid > of it completely and giving a responsibility to the applications to do it > may be good perhaps. My patch makes that applications can find out whether creating/updating caches are necessary or not. https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2016-November/005854.html I believe it can partially solve this problem. _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig