[Fontconfig] fontconfig-2.8.0 released

Ryan Hill dirtyepic at gentoo.org
Sat Nov 21 16:51:04 PST 2009


On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:43:54 -0500
Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:

> On 11/19/2009 09:29 PM, Ryan Hill wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:56:22 -0500
> > Behdad Esfahbod<behdad at behdad.org>  wrote:
> >
> >> It's out.  I suggest everyone upgrade to it.  It uses cache format 3, so it
> >> can't conflict with any older version :).
> >>
> >> behdad
> >
> > Should fc-cache -r remove old cache files?
> 
> Well, it's a valid usecase to access the same home directory from two 
> machines, having different versions of fontconfig.  While I agree that 
> cleaning up on -r may make sense, I'm not sure which files to remove.  Any 
> file with 32 chars or longer?

Ah, didn't think of that.  I was thinking about the global cache and
expecting fc-cache -r to remove everything in the cachedir (including the
version 2 cache files) and regen.

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