Bug#897040: fontconfig: .uuid files in font directories not removed during purge

Alexandre Detiste alexandre.detiste at gmail.com
Sat Sep 13 18:02:37 BST 2025


Hi,

That does the trick !

But then an extra  "find /usr/share/fonts -type d -empty -delete"
is also needed to remove the remaining empty directories.

Greetings

>AFAICS, fc-cache is not generating .uuid files anymore.
>
>The problem remains for older installations, but I see that fc-cache
>contains a "-r" flags to delete old cache files and the remaining .uuid
>are being removed with this flag.
>
>That could mitigate the problem I would say
>
>What do you thing?



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