bug#26877: building fonts: fontcache must be updated regulary

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hello,

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hi,
>
> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>
>> The usual Guix way to handle things like this is to arrange for the font
>> cache to be part of the profile, and to create a profile hook that
>> creates the cache from all of the built packages included within.
>
> The problem is that the cache should be mutable so that one can run
> “fc-cache -f” after having dropped files in ~/.local/share/fonts, for
> instance.
>
> That said, quite surprisingly, I think I never had to run ‘fc-cache’
> except in the situation above.

I've never had to do this in years, although I don't use "loose" fonts
manually installed under ~/.local/share/fonts.

Should we close the issue?  Our fontconfig package now honors fonts
found under XDG_DATA_DIRS, and it seems to just work.

Thanks,

Maxim