On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Package: defoma > Version: 0.11.10-0.2 > Severity: normal > > I have my homedir on an NFS mounted filesystem. Hence root has no rights > on my files. > > When installing latex-xft-fonts, I got the following output: > > Setting up latex-xft-fonts (0.1-7) ... > Updating fontconfig cache for /usr/share/fonts/truetype/latex-xft-fonts > /home/paul/.fontconfig/f1639389e5f55db35457162d771a17f5-x86-64.cache-2: > Permission denied > Why is it trying to do that? What will break now it failed to do that? > Must it do that? > It runs 'fc-cache' after adding/removing any fonts. fc-cache updates the fontconfig cache, and I believe these errors are harmless but alarming to people who don't understand whats going on. Keithp, is there some extra flag fontconfig.defoma should be using to avoid updating the $HOME/.fontconfig/ index? -- - Gus
