fontconfig 2.5.0 [LSARC/2008/140 FastTrack timeout 02/29/2008]

[James Carlson]

Srirama Sharma writes:
> > Will the upgrade process scrub away the now-unnecessary cache files in
> > /usr?
> >   
> No. Currently  there is no default mechanism to remove the old 
> 'fonts.cache-1' files which were getting created in the respective font 
> dirs located under '/usr'.
> 
> So if a user upgrades a machine with the new fontconfig (2.5.0) 
> packages, he would still see old obsolete cache files in the font dirs 
> along with the new cache files located under '/var/cache/fontconfig'.

That's unfortunate.  Is it just not feasible to clean up the system?

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