Re: Is fc-cache broken on -current?

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Bill Hacker wrote:
*snip*

> > Ordinarily NOT by the 'update'.
> >
> > But by the 'updater',

(person, not process...)

> On deinstallation of a package, the package's registered configurations 
> are compared with the versions in the share/examples directory.
>
> If different, then it is removed.
>
> On a package installation, if the configuration does not exist, it will be 
> copied into place from the (newly installed) share/examples version.

All well and good, but what you have NOT mentioned is what has been done vs 
should have been done if the configuration DOES exist.

whyzat ?

> In the case of fontconfig, the fonts.conf file should not be manually 
> edited by the admin as the customizations should be in local.conf.

OK - why then was the old fontconfig <defaults?>  NOT removed or replaced?

Reality doesn't seem to be following either my preferences or your 'should have' 
(standard?) here.

Not a who is right/wrong issue to me.

More one of expectations/predictability - and what is presently in the code....

Bill