[Fontconfig] pre-creating font caches in a different tree
Mike Frysinger
vapier at gentoo.org
Tue Oct 4 11:45:53 PDT 2011
i'd like to run fc-cache against a different tree than "/". a lot of utils
have a "--root" flag for this sort of thing. this is useful for distros which
are preparing packages for installation. it avoids having to run fc-cache on
every system that deploys the fonts.
so if i ran `fc-cache -s --root /a/b/c`, it would look at /a/b/c/etc/fonts/
instead of /etc/fonts/. then every dir that those config files said to use
would transparently be prefixed with /a/b/c. so if my config said
<dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir> and <cachedir>/var/cache/fontconfig</cachedir>, it
would instead scan /a/b/c/usr/share/fonts and store the cache in
/a/b/c/var/cache/fontconfig.
how hard do people envision this being ?
-mike
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