[Fontconfig] Next steps for a reproducible Fontconfig?

Alexander Larsson alexander.larsson at gmail.com
Thu Jan 24 10:59:45 UTC 2019


On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 11:54 AM Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:
>
> Alexander Larsson <alexander.larsson at gmail.com> writes:
>
> $ cat /run/host/font-dirs.xml
> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
> > <fontconfig>
> >     <remap-dir real-path="/usr/share/fonts">/run/host/fonts</remap-dir>
> >     <remap-dir real-path="/home/alex/.fonts">/run/host/user-fonts</remap-dir>
> > </fontconfig>
> >
> > Is this format acceptable? Its mostly about naming the nodes and the
> > attributes, so its basically trivial. If you want i can rename things
> > or change orders, but I'd really just like an Ack on something.
>
> Format looks OK.
>
> I think we might bike-shed on the names here a bit -- 'real-path' is
> pretty ambiguous as both paths are 'real', one is just the file system
> path and the other is the cache path. I like using the file system path
> as the contents of the element and the cache path as the property, but
> perhaps the property name could be 'cache-path' instead?

Or maybe 'cache-as' ?


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