[Fontconfig] What to do with $HOME is unset

Albert Chin fontconfig at mlists.thewrittenword.com
Mon Oct 2 22:34:50 PDT 2006


On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 11:09:50AM +0100, Keith Packard wrote:
> I'm wondering if we shouldn't use a /tmp scheme as a part of the cache
> directory path. Would this make sense, and if so, how would we structure
> the names? 

I'd suggest a /tmp/.fc-cache/[whatever]. On systems with _lots_ of
logged in users, this wouldn't flood /tmp with an entry for every
user.

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albert chin (china at thewrittenword.com)


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