[Fontconfig] Font cache simplification

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Thu May 18 08:39:16 PDT 2006


On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 17:30 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> I know I'm part of a dying breed here, but what about users who share the
> same home directory via NFS on multiple machines?  (This was very common
> once upon a time in environments like universities, and we still do it where
> I work.)    Would something as simple as ~/.fonts.cache/<hostname>/... make
> sense?

You could easily configure that in your local environment by placing the
hostname in the cache directory path.

Note that this is not a new problem; the default per-user cache is
already a global option.

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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