Hey Ian, thanks for the updating the report. I don't have the answers to all your question and I'm unsure we have someone in desktop who is expert with fontconfig or fonts to reply to e.g the first one
I can reply to at least one though!
> * Can someone explain exactly what things the `dpkg-reconfigure fontcache` command calls to build the cache? is it sufficient to just call fc-cache from the fontconfig package or do we need to be doing something else too?
$ cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/fontconfig.postinst
...
# Force regeneration of all fontconfig cache files.
mkdir -p /var/cache/fontconfig
printf "Regenerating fonts cache... "
fc-cache -s -f -v 1>/var/log/fontconfig.log 2>&1 || (printf "failed.\nSee /var/log/fontconfig.log for more information.\n"; exit 1)
printf "done.\n"
Hey Ian, thanks for the updating the report. I don't have the answers to all your question and I'm unsure we have someone in desktop who is expert with fontconfig or fonts to reply to e.g the first one
I can reply to at least one though!
> * Can someone explain exactly what things the `dpkg-reconfigure fontcache` command calls to build the cache? is it sufficient to just call fc-cache from the fontconfig package or do we need to be doing something else too?
$ cat /var/lib/ dpkg/info/ fontconfig. postinst fontconfig log/fontconfig. log 2>&1 || (printf "failed.\nSee /var/log/ fontconfig. log for more information.\n"; exit 1)
...
# Force regeneration of all fontconfig cache files.
mkdir -p /var/cache/
printf "Regenerating fonts cache... "
fc-cache -s -f -v 1>/var/
printf "done.\n"
that's what the fontconfig package is doing