Re: [PATCH] Do not remove UUID file when a scanned directory is empty 1 x

Nicolas Mailhot <[email protected]> Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:03:11 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.fonts.fontconfig
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Le 2018-11-05 13:36, Alexander Larsson a écrit :

Hi,

> Of course, this is a lot of complexity and moving parts to avoid a
> file in /usr. I still don't quite understand such a file is such a big
> deal. (I mean, other than the clear bug of constantly regenerating
> it.)

Because the things fontconfig indexes can be in a directory hierarchy 
fontconfig has no business writing to (RO network shares or ROMs, 
application-provided font directories, other OS font directories where 
fontconfig is not the main system font manager)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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