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To: Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>
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Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu> writes:

> Hi Efraim,
>
> Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> I actually have the following snippet in my OS-config:
>>
>> ;; This directory shouldn't exist
>> (file-system
>>   (device "none")
>>   (mount-point "/var/cache/fontconfig")
>>   (type "tmpfs")
>>   (flags '(read-only))
>>   (check? #f))
>
> yes! now that I read this I see how to workaround this class of
> problems, thanks!=20
>
> This snippet IMHO deserves a section in the Cookbook: would you please
> like to expand this in a proper section/subsection and submit a patch?

I prefer to keep workarounds for real bugs out of the Cookbook.  For
both fontconfig and the gdm user account=E2=80=99s home directory we should=
 push
a workaround very soon.

>> While we work on fixing these
>
> we in Guix you mean? shouldn't it be fixed upstream?

These problems don=E2=80=99t seem to happen on any distribution.  We still =
have
to diagnose why that is.

--=20
Ricardo