Fontconfig - Feb 2006 - Patch: prefer cache files in /var/cache/fontconfig over <dir>/fonts.cache-2

Takashi made a patch to prefer the cache files in
/var/cache/fontconfig over cache files in the directories where
the fonts are.

The current behaviour is the opposite, i.e. the fonts.cache-2 files
in the directories where the fonts are are preferred.

We think it is better to prefer the caches in /var/cache/fontconfig
because the directories where the fonts are (e.g. /usr/share/fonts)
might be mounted readonly, maybe from some server via NFS.

If there is a problem with these cache files in the font directories,
there is Currently no way to fix the problem on a machine mounting
these directories readonly.

/var/cache/fontconfig should be writeable, therefore one can create
good caches by calling "fc-cache -f". But this won''t help if
the
because the broken cache files cannot be removed from the readonly
file system, the broken cache files are still preferred.

Because "fc-cache -f" can always create good caches in
/var/cache/fontconfig, the caches there should be preferred.

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Mike FABIAN   <mfabian@suse.de>   http://www.suse.de/~mfabian
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Mike FABIAN wrote:
> We think it is better to prefer the caches in /var/cache/fontconfig
> because the directories where the fonts are (e.g. /usr/share/fonts)
> might be mounted readonly, maybe from some server via NFS.
This sounds sensible to me.  I originally made it read the fonts
directory first because that was the inverse of the order in which it
tries to write, but there''s no good reason to invert the order here,
and
/var/cache/fontconfig seems more likely to be correct, especially since
it''s the first place that fc-cache tries to write to!  I''ve
committed
the patch.

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