From: Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: fc-cache -f --> fc-cache -fv in the manual
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 10:37:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86impysxua.fsf@dismail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87woegcchy.fsf@nckx> (Tobias Geerinckx-Rice's message of "Tue, 10 Sep 2019 19:00:41 +0200")
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> writes:
>
> Otherwise (and with a commit message) fine by me! This will also warn
> about problematic things like
>
> /var/cache/fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory
>
> although they will be so buried in the output that nobody will see
> 'em.
>
> Does you/anyone know if it would be useful to recommend ‘-rv’ instead
> of ‘-fv’? I always use ‘-r’: where ‘-f’ rewrites all cache files
> whether or not they are considered out of date, ‘-r’ also deletes them
> first, for good measure. I don't know whether it makes a difference
> in the real world.
>
So I went ahead and changed "fc-cache -f" to "fc-cache -frv". I also
only applied the change for the English manual. I believe the commit
message is in a proper changelog format. What do you think?
--
Joshua Branson
Sent from Emacs and Gnus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-11 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-10 16:02 fc-cache -f --> fc-cache -fv in the manual Joshua Branson
2019-09-10 17:00 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-09-10 17:32 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-09-10 17:47 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-09-10 22:56 ` P via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2019-09-11 14:37 ` Joshua Branson [this message]
2019-09-11 15:59 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-09-11 14:39 ` Joshua Branson
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