From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 17 18:01:00 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACEF4FBF; Sat, 17 Aug 2013 18:01:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.95.76.21]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8FA102414; Sat, 17 Aug 2013 18:01:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (localhost.apl.washington.edu [127.0.0.1]) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r7HI0vMI070147; Sat, 17 Aug 2013 11:00:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id r7HI0v9v070146; Sat, 17 Aug 2013 11:00:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgk) Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 11:00:57 -0700 From: Steve Kargl To: Kevin Oberman Subject: Re: fontconfig madness Message-ID: <20130817180056.GA70018@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20130812192745.GA80894@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20130817114412.44885d21@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <20130817163929.GA69757@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users , Tijl Coosemans , FreeBSD Ports ML X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 18:01:00 -0000 On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:02:24AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > 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 > > > > .fontconfig > > > > 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.) > I can't find the site where I got this impression of the deprecation. It seems that freetype2 wants to enforce the layout from XDG base directory specification. If one looks in /usr/local/etc/fonts/fonts.conf, one sees /var/db/fontconfig fontconfig ~/.fontconfig AFAICT, that future is now. -- Steve