From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice Subject: Re: fc-cache -f --> fc-cache -fv in the manual Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 19:00:41 +0200 Message-ID: <87woegcchy.fsf@nckx> References: <86woegqgw4.fsf@dismail.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60060) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i7jVn-0005Mv-9c for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Sep 2019 13:01:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i7jVh-0005Bk-Od for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Sep 2019 13:01:02 -0400 Received: from tobias.gr ([80.241.217.52]:38146) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i7jVh-00058g-6V for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Sep 2019 13:00:57 -0400 In-reply-to: <86woegqgw4.fsf@dismail.de> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org, Joshua Branson --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Joshua, Joshua Branson =E5=86=99=E9=81=93=EF=BC=9A > This is a tiny documentation fix. When I was having trouble a=20 > few > days ago getting Icecat to display my fonts, I checked the=20 > manual and > ran the command "fc-cache -f". It did successfully run, but I=20 > did not > see any indication that it did anything. So I ran it=20 > repeatedly. Such is the Unix way. You're supposed to feel the 0 in the air,=20 or something. > Perhaps we should add the verbose option. This will signal to=20 > users > that the command is updating the font cache. > > I also went ahead and changed command in the translated manuals=20 > as well. While that probably works, we don't usually do this and it=20 significantly bloats the diff. Don't bother. Otherwise (and with a commit message) fine by me! This will also=20 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=20 'em. Does you/anyone know if it would be useful to recommend =E2=80=98-rv=E2=80= =99=20 instead of =E2=80=98-fv=E2=80=99? I always use =E2=80=98-r=E2=80=99: where= =E2=80=98-f=E2=80=99 rewrites=20 all cache files whether or not they are considered out of date,=20 =E2=80=98-r=E2=80=99 also deletes them first, for good measure. I don't kn= ow=20 whether it makes a difference in the real world. Kind regards, T G-R --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEARYKAB0WIQT12iAyS4c9C3o4dnINsP+IT1VteQUCXXfWuQAKCRANsP+IT1Vt eUj/AQDqmC4CMXKUyRk1KhVzoAYfzxUg/ZQN3GwGvSNJeAtGhQD/apLx5uqI1H+O pRyciQQ8Kti15H6guILCatsNujcu8wE= =gnct -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--