[Fontconfig] Tools to ensure at least minimal functionality

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Tue Jan 25 05:23:12 EST 2005


Around 18 o'clock on Jan 24, Enrique Perez-Terron wrote:

> In this case the upgrade script should run fc-cache in all directories
> containing fonts, whether or not any fonts had been installed or
> uninstalled there. That means the upgrade script must parse the user's
> configuration files to locate the directories.

fc-cache isn't necessary (or at least isn't supposed to be necessary); it's
simply a way to share cached font information for multiple users.

Any other behaviour is a bug somewhere.

-keith


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