Hi Felix, Felix Lechner <felix.lech...@lease-up.com> writes:
> Hi, > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 8:06 AM Maxim Cournoyer > <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I haven't seen this problem in a long while, so I'm inclined to think >> it's been resolved. > > I think I had that issue with a fresh install within the last year and > based on advice in IRC (thanks nckx!) ran 'fc-cache -fv'. OK, thanks for the information; let's leave this bug open then. > For what it's worth, I believe Debian's packaging tools (in this case, > Debhelper) detect changes to the font directories and add a font > update hook to the package installation scripts. Since we do not have > such scripts—and I am with Ludo' that it's probably a feature worth > preserving—maybe our package manager could run the hook? Another idea: modify fontconfig so that it never creates or uses cache. Revisit later if it causes performance problems (I doubt it would). -- Thanks, Maxim