Re: [PATCH] Do not remove UUID file when a scanned directory is empty

"Keith Packard" <[email protected]> Thu, 01 Nov 2018 11:15:21 -0700

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Akira TAGOH <[email protected]> writes:

> Thanks. I don't still have a time to try it out. I'll let you know
> once I do. of course you can submit a MR for that prior to that.
> For just quick comment, we shouldn't remove public APIs at this point.
> also good to update document about <dir>.

Right, I've stubbed out FcDirCacheCreateUUID to do nothing and updated
the docs in 'v2' of this patch. Thanks for this preliminary review.

> I'm wondering if <dir> elements could be moved into the separate file
> so one who wants to have own fonts directory list instead of the
> default one (like this case) can replace it easily instead of patching
> fonts.conf out?

We might consider creating a new element that resets the directory list
to empty?

        <reset-dirs/>
        <dir>~/.fonts</dir>

would remove all system-specified font directories and add ~/.fonts.

-- 
-keith

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