fontconfig considered harmful

Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:24:29 +0200
rants

I'm sometimes a bit behind on the "Make Linux as Unusable as Windows" front. So I only learned today about this 'fontconfig' thing which is a major victory in that respect.

The .fonts-cache1 files alone are very effective in that:

633k in /home for every single user on an quite normal sarge install, thus half a gig for all users.

font-data in /home? Yes, really. I did not believe it when I first saw it, either. Guess sharing your home-dir over an inhomogeneous network is nothing Windows can, so it should no longer be supported....

Running fc-cache as root on any computer will make it stop to do so, but it is disturbing to see again some of unixoid strengths thrown in the wastebasket.