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Re: [ports-i386@xxxxxxxxxxx: gtk-2.8.11 failed on i386 6]



On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 17:43 +0100, Dejan Lesjak wrote:
> [fontconfig maintainers cced]
> 
> On Thursday 02 February 2006 17:18, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > This failure is caused by the following files left in the directory
> > after xorg-font-encodings has been removed:
> >
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  17 Feb  1 19:53
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/fonts.cache-1 -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel 
> >  0 Feb  1 19:53 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/large/fonts.cache-1
> >
> > These are then removed by fontconfig, but nothing cleans up the
> > directories.  What should be doing that?
> 
> Interesting question.  fontencodings don't create fonts.cache-1, but it will 
> probably be easier and less messy if they remove them so they can also remove 
> directories. Can it be assumed that fontconfig is present at the time 
> fontencodings are uninstalled?

Not necessarily.  fontconfig is only a build dependency of
xorg-font-encodings.  Therefore, you could remove fontconfig, and keep
encodings around.  The strange thing is that fontconfig removes all
fonts.cache-1 files under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts upon deinstallation.

Joe

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