Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 10:02:24 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org>, FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: fontconfig madness Message-ID: <CAN6yY1sbnsfgHDCfjh5xX2dcsqvq_4dnpYV3GFCQd7RwO=2K7g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130817163929.GA69757@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20130812192745.GA80894@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20130817114412.44885d21@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <20130817163929.GA69757@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Steve Kargl < sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 11:44:12AM +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 12:27:45 -0700 Steve Kargl wrote: > > > I upgraded my freebsd-current system to revision 254098 > > > and followed this by deleting all installed ports except > > > pkg. After rebuilding all ports, it seems fontconfig has > > > lost it mind (or someone made a chnage to where fontconfig > > > thinks it should cache fonts). Every time I run acroread8 > > > to view a pdf file, acroread8 creates a new fontconfig/ > > > in the CWD instead of using ~/.fontconfig. How do I (un)fix > > > whatever was changed? > > > > > > I seem to have the most up-to-date ports. > > > > > > % pkg info | grep fontconf > > > fontconfig-2.10.93,1 An XML-based font configuration API for > X Windows > > > linux-f10-fontconfig-2.6.0 An XML-based font configuration API for > X Windows (Linux Fedora 10) > > > % pkg version -vl '<' | grep fontconfig > > > > I see this too with every linux program that uses fontconfig. > > After a few hours of poking around, I've believe that I've > narrowed the issue down to a decision by the developers of > fontconfig to deprecate the default location ~/.fontconfig. > I added a /usr/local/etc/fonts/local.conf, which contains > > <cachedir prefix="~">.fontconfig</cachedir> > > to recover the old behavior > Steve, It seems like the term "madness" is entirely appropriate to such a change. Is there a commit log that you have found indicating that ti was deliberate? I am at a loss as to why such a change would be made. (I am also at a loss, even after reading all of the discussion, on why Mozilla decided to remove the "automatically load images" preference checkbox, so I'm not ruling anything out.) > -- > Steve > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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