Bug 96414

Summary:	Enhancing the output of "fc-cache -v"
Product:	fontconfig	Reporter:	sworddragon2
Component:	fc-cache	Assignee:	Akira TAGOH <akira>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	Behdad Esfahbod <freedesktop>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium	CC:	akira, fontconfig-bugs
Version:	2.11
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description sworddragon2 2016-06-06 22:39:50 UTC

On executing "fc-cache -v" I'm a bit wondering about some of the output:

- I'm seeing many things being skipped like "/usr/share/fonts: skipping, existing cache is valid: 0 fonts, 3 dirs" but I'm wondering what has actually been skipped.

- Even on repeated executions I'm seeing the same directories getting cleaned like "/home/sworddragon/.cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory". Since something can be skipped as sayed above I'm wondering if the directories are really cleaned and if not maybe they should also say that they skip the cleaning as nothing would be to do.

Comment 1 Akira TAGOH 2016-06-07 08:12:32 UTC

(In reply to sworddragon2 from comment #0)
> On executing "fc-cache -v" I'm a bit wondering about some of the output:
> 
> - I'm seeing many things being skipped like "/usr/share/fonts: skipping,
> existing cache is valid: 0 fonts, 3 dirs" but I'm wondering what has
> actually been skipped.

Skipping updating caches - what you are going to do with fc-cache is to update caches. so it is obvious thing, isn't it?

> - Even on repeated executions I'm seeing the same directories getting
> cleaned like "/home/sworddragon/.cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache
> directory". Since something can be skipped as sayed above I'm wondering if
> the directories are really cleaned and if not maybe they should also say
> that they skip the cleaning as nothing would be to do.

That makes sense. let me take a look how it can be improved.

Comment 2 sworddragon2 2016-06-07 18:34:43 UTC

(In reply to Akira TAGOH from comment #1)
> Skipping updating caches - what you are going to do with fc-cache is to
> update caches. so it is obvious thing, isn't it?

Updating caches with fc-cache includes different subtasks like the cleaning process of old caches. Maybe that makes it not so super obvious for every user. Or maybe the summerly temperatures here are already getting just too high.

Comment 3 GitLab Migration User 2018-08-20 21:50:35 UTC

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