bug#26877: closed (building fonts: fontcache must be updated regulary)

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has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #26877,
regarding building fonts: fontcache must be updated regulary
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> building fonts: fontcache must be updated regulary
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> Thu, 11 May 2017 08:36:58 +0000
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> The problem: Right now after just installing fonts, they do
> not become available. This can lead to some applications
> appearing "broken", etc. Other operating systems solve this
> by having a post-install hook which roughly does just this.
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> A possible solution:
> Our fictional, not yet existing, font-build-system should
> run "fc-cache --force --really-force", or we should have
> a service which does the same for the fonts installed in
> the user profile.
> At this point a font-build-system would be good anyway,
> as the number of fonts keeps growing, and most fonts are
> using similar patterns to be installed.
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> Hello,
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> 宋文武 <iyzsong@envs.net> writes:
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> > Hello, I think we can close this now, since this commit:
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> > commit 6f12880a76a6c91058718d15845f8b9d9b529a5a
> > Author: Sarah Morgensen <iskarian <at> mgsn.dev>
> > Date:   Fri Jun 18 17:52:05 2021 -0700
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> >     gnu: fontconfig: Use (locally) deterministic caching
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> >     Make fontconfig use directory contents rather than modification time to
> >     determine cache validity (by pretending that mtime is broken).
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> > 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).
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> Excellent, I had forgotten about that commit.  Thanks to Sarah for
> fixing the issue!
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> Closing.
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> Maxim
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