> Adding workarounds usually leads to the fact that the bug never gets fixed, > so > we avoid this usually and better keep the bug visible. > > fc-cache -f would also increase the runtime of SuSEconfig.fonts heavily.
Fair enough... that makes sense, but... then that makes me ask... why was the broken fontconfig released to the apt repositories then? Has it been pulled? If not it should be... and right away. I can deal with removing a buggy/broken fontconfig, or if I know I need to, manually running fc-cache, but... what about all the new users? On the SLE list a guy ran into this, and all of his X apps were crashing (like mine were) and he was so frustrated he is at the point where he is ready to throw in the proverbial towel and return to Windows. I've replied to his posting and pasted in Kaus' workaround solution... but... this is a pretty significant bug considering that it crashes all X applications. I can only wonder how many new users tried out apt, did an update, figured they trashed their install... and either have to reinstall (because they don't know to run fc-cache) or they return to Windows.... :-( C. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
