[Fontconfig-bugs] [Bug 39914] Please tag the cache directory with CACHEDIR.TAG

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Wed Mar 21 19:42:13 PDT 2012


https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39914

--- Comment #15 from Akira TAGOH <akira at tagoh.org> 2012-03-21 19:42:13 PDT ---
Thanks for the comment.

(In reply to comment #13)
> Last but not least.  This is the wrong place to create this file.  Calling
> fc-cache is by all means considered optional.  The file should be create in the
> library.  Now, I'm inclined to say we should try creating it only when creating
> the cache directory, but that wouldn't help existing users.  I'd rather not add
> a stat() to every application's startup just for this file...

Then we should keep the function in fc-cache to create this file at least. we
could simply skip this process when updating caches at the startup time if
necessary. creating CACHEDIR.TAG would be an optional then.

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