Bug#864082: [Fontconfig] Next steps for a reproducible Fontconfig?

[Akira TAGOH]

No comments on this (yet) so just opened a merge request here:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/merge_requests/30

If anyone can review, that would be appreciated.

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 7:36 PM Akira TAGOH <akira at tagoh.org> wrote:
>
> I've done implementation for salt:
>   https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/tagoh/fontconfig/commits/flatpak-rework
>
> That should works as expected.
> For summary to support this on flatpak side, All of flatpaks needs to have:
>
>    <dir salt="something">/usr/share/fonts</dir>
>
> and more if there are any fonts directories on sandbox where has same
> directory names on host.
> or may be better having a salt regardless of it to make them
> differenciated to host perhaps. I'll leave it to you, Alex.
>
> No salt should be needed for remap-dir so far.
>
> Ah, and if you want to manage fonts directories in a single file and
> don't want to modify fonts.conf, you can put <reset-dirs/> prior to
> re-define own fonts directories with dir elements.
>
> Please test it.
>
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 5:56 PM Alexander Larsson
> <alexander.larsson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 9:54 AM Akira TAGOH <akira at tagoh.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Also if host dirs are available as is on sandbox like Alex concerned,
> > > we could simply have:
> > >
> > >     <dir>/opt/fonts</dir>
> >
> > Yeah, assuming there is no global default salt that messes this up.
>
>
>
> --
> Akira TAGOH



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