[Fontconfig] Status about fontconfig CVS regarding cache handling

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 11:28 +0100, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> Le jeudi 09 février 2006 à 13:39 -0500, Patrick Lam a écrit :
> > Frederic Crozat wrote:
> > > But old fonts.cache-2 file in the file system (not
> > > in /var/cache/fontconfig) is not removed when running fc-cache and
> > > running fc-cache several times still update cache
> > > in /var/cache/fontconfig.
> > 
> > I'm not quite sure what the correct solution is in this case.  Any ideas?
> 
> Hmm, I thought the problem would be fixed by patch from Takashi
> preferring /var/cache/fontconfig files instead of the one in directory
> but it still isn't. 
> 
> Running fc-cache several times still generate recreate cache
> in /var/cache/fontconfig.
> 
> I guess there is still some side effect somewhere..

Could the problem be that the fonts.cache-2 file in the font dir
is mistaken for a font ? 

Matthias