g2k18 hackathon report: Matthieu Herrb on font caches and xenodm

Next in from Ljubljana is Matthieu Herrb (matthieu@):

I spent the first day and a half chasing an issue that many peoplehave been experiencing: the first X start after an install or upgradefrom a snapshot was slow. The direct cause of this is well-known: it'sthe fontconfig library (used by all applications that do fontrendering) that re-builds its font cache (~/.cache/fontconfig/)because of newly installed fonts.

Except that normally, OpenBSD X sets ship a pre-computed, system-widecache (/var/cache/fontconfig/) that should avoid this. So what is theproblem ?

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