[Fontconfig-bugs] [Bug 71715] Defaulting <cachedir> to ~/Library/Caches/org.freedesktop.fontconfig for OSX build

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71715

--- Comment #4 from Akira TAGOH <akira at tagoh.org> ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> I agree that for MacPorts, Fink, and Brew users it might make sense to
> simply use the global location (using the default /var directory), but even
> so, it would be just as beneficial to them as it is to us to have per-user
> font caches on OSX.

I'm not sure if you are aware there are two cache directory locations by
default. one is for the system wide (which is able to determine at the build
time with --with-cache-dir) and the user specific where is
$HOME/.cache/fontconfig on popular Un*x systems and it could be customized by
$XDG_CACHE_HOME as I said in the previous comment. for the user own fonts, the
user specific cache directory would be better place to store those caches
because it can't be picked up by another user as you said. but not that good
for the system wide fonts since it takes some disk spaces and having same cache
per users is redundant, waste of the disk spaces 
 and CPU load to create caches.
So generally speaking configuring the system-wide cache directory at the user
space (at least by default as upstream) makes no sense.

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