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Summary: Useless font auto-installer calls
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531105
Summary: Useless font auto-installer calls Product: Fedora Version: rawhide Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: medium Priority: low Component: fontconfig AssignedTo: besfahbo@redhat.com ReportedBy: nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net QAContact: extras-qa@fedoraproject.org CC: besfahbo@redhat.com, fedora-fonts-bugs-list@redhat.com Classification: Fedora
The font stack triggers the PK font auto-installer for stuff like N'ko or Ancient Persian for which fontconfig has no orthography
Therefore, those calls will never succeed and the user is bothered for no good reason
fc-query/cache should also generate PK metadata for unicode blocks, so that when the font stack needs a glyph which is not part of an orthography, PK can search for fonts that cover the corresponding unicode block (stuff like symbols will probably never make it in an orth)