[Fontconfig] Re: Structure of cache files

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Wed Oct 5 17:14:58 EST 2005


Le jeudi 22 septembre 2005 à 23:00 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit :
> So this means that the file format is not endianness- and
> platform-independent, but contains enough information to load it on
> other platforms ?

In this case, this is a serious violation of the Filesystem Hierarchy
Standard. The cache files lie in /usr/share, in which case they should
be strictly platform-independent.

Would it be possible to generate a system-wide cache and to put it
somewhere in /var/cache instead?
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