Is fc-cache broken on -current?

Bill Hacker wbh at conducive.org
Wed Sep 27 11:07:50 PDT 2006


Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Bill Hacker wrote:
*snip*

Ordinarily NOT by the 'update'.

But by the 'updater',

(person, not process...)

On deinstallation of a package, the package's registered configurations 
are compared with the versions in the share/examples directory.

If different, then it is removed.

On a package installation, if the configuration does not exist, it will be 
copied into place from the (newly installed) share/examples version.

All well and good, but what you have NOT mentioned is what has been done vs 
should have been done if the configuration DOES exist.

whyzat ?

In the case of fontconfig, the fonts.conf file should not be manually 
edited by the admin as the customizations should be in local.conf.
OK - why then was the old fontconfig <defaults?>  NOT removed or replaced?

Reality doesn't seem to be following either my preferences or your 'should have' 
(standard?) here.

Not a who is right/wrong issue to me.

More one of expectations/predictability - and what is presently in the code....

Bill





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