[Fontconfig] Re: Crash when non-existing directories are referenced in ~/.fonts.cache

Frederic Crozat fcrozat at mandriva.com
Mon Jan 30 08:16:45 PST 2006


Le lundi 30 janvier 2006 à 11:03 -0500, Patrick Lam a écrit :
> Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > Well, the current state of continuous recreation of $HOME/.fonts.cache
> > is certainly worse than having to run fc-cache after font installation. 
> > fc-cache does not have to be run as root, I can use it just fine as an
> > ordinary user to create a font cache in $HOME/.fonts.
> 
> Yes.  However, that cache is just a cache for the .fonts directory, not 
> for the system fonts.

Unless some system fonts are not cached properly (if fc-cache wasn't run
as root), in that case, they will be cached in ~/.fonts.cache-2.

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat at mandriva.com>
Mandriva



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