[Fontconfig] Slow startup of trivial GNOME 2.6 applications

[Keith Packard]

Around 12 o'clock on Oct 20, Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:

> A bit of trussing reveals that even the most trivial
> of programs performs a full scan of all the available
> font files on the system. 

There was a bug in some older versions of fontconfig which would not 
correctly update the per-user cache file in all circumstances.  You may be 
hitting that here.  To work around it, make sure your per-directory cache 
files are all up-to-date by running fc-cache

When this is working, fontconfig should check only the timestamps on the 
directories themselves, and not every font file.

-keith


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