From: "宋文武 via Bug reports for GNU Guix" <bug-guix@gnu.org>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Cc: "Mark H Weaver" <mhw@netris.org>,
"Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>,
26877@debbugs.gnu.org, ng0 <ng0@pragmatique.xyz>
Subject: bug#26877: building fonts: fontcache must be updated regulary
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2023 18:06:24 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87350pdhb3.fsf@envs.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871quth9rw.fsf@gmail.com> (Maxim Cournoyer's message of "Sun, 10 Jul 2022 00:27:47 -0400")
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello,
>
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>>
>>> The usual Guix way to handle things like this is to arrange for the font
>>> cache to be part of the profile, and to create a profile hook that
>>> creates the cache from all of the built packages included within.
>>
>> The problem is that the cache should be mutable so that one can run
>> “fc-cache -f” after having dropped files in ~/.local/share/fonts, for
>> instance.
>>
>> That said, quite surprisingly, I think I never had to run ‘fc-cache’
>> except in the situation above.
>
> I've never had to do this in years, although I don't use "loose" fonts
> manually installed under ~/.local/share/fonts.
>
> Should we close the issue? Our fontconfig package now honors fonts
> found under XDG_DATA_DIRS, and it seems to just work.
Hello, I think we can close this now, since this commit:
commit 6f12880a76a6c91058718d15845f8b9d9b529a5a
Author: Sarah Morgensen <iskarian <at> mgsn.dev>
Date: Fri Jun 18 17:52:05 2021 -0700
gnu: fontconfig: Use (locally) deterministic caching
Make fontconfig use directory contents rather than modification time to
determine cache validity (by pretending that mtime is broken).
There is no need to run 'fc-cache' manually, and applications just need
close/restart to use newly install fonts (also manual run here doesn't
remove the need of restart).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-11 10:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-11 8:36 bug#26877: building fonts: fontcache must be updated regulary ng0
2017-05-11 17:46 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-05-11 19:47 ` ng0
2017-05-11 20:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-07-10 4:27 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-08-11 10:06 ` 宋文武 via Bug reports for GNU Guix [this message]
2023-08-11 14:47 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-07-07 10:49 ` bug#26877: Fontcache in system profile not updated John Soo
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