On Thu, Apr 25, 2019, at 07:48, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: > I'm not in favor of this. I think this should be fixed upstream. > > Now that there has been a release of dwm and dmenu with the workaround it > should be removed I think. > > There is no nice workaround except making the code more ugly. Should every > project using fontconfig add this stupid workaround? I don't think so. One of > the things that flow from the UNIX philosophy as I see it is solving things at > the appropriate layer (or try to).
I don't think anyone disagrees with that in principle, but it seems that an upstream fix is not forthcoming, because reasons. A simple workaround is better than a crash. This seems like a good example where practicality should beat purity.
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