Bug 486172

Summary:	Fontconfig warning: [...] reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Erik Quaeghebeur <gentoo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	normal	CC:	marco.dr
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Erik Quaeghebeur 2013-09-27 09:34:18 UTC

Upon starting applications in a terminal (e.g., rekonq, qgit4), I get the following warning:

Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 14: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.

I have media-libs/fontconfig-2.10.92 installed.

(I get other fontconfig warnings and errors later, and a 'fontonfig' directory created in ~, but they may result from the first, so I'd like to fix that first.)

I found https://nowardev.wordpress.com/2013/02/02/fontconfig-warning-etcfontsconf-d50-user-conf-line-9-reading-configurations-from-fonts-conf-is-deprecated/ but that doesn't solve the problem. (Also, I don't have '.fonts.conf' in ~.)


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-09-27 21:21:09 UTC

> /etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf

Please try `eselect fontconfig disable 50-user.conf` and let us know if it works.

Comment 2 Erik Quaeghebeur 2013-09-27 21:50:50 UTC

(In reply to Tom Wijsman (TomWij) from comment #1)
> 
> Please try `eselect fontconfig disable 50-user.conf` and let us know if it
> works.

I did

# eselect fontconfig disable 50-user.conf

and the warning went away; for other warnings/errors I encountered, I had to do

# eselect fontconfig disable 10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf

to get rid of them.

If those two fontconfig configuration files are not important in some sense, this bug can be closed, I guess.

Comment 3 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-09-27 22:07:44 UTC

Yes, they plan to remove it in the near future; from that file:

    <!-- the following elements will be removed in the future -->
    <include ignore_missing="yes" deprecated="yes">~/.fonts.conf.d</include>
    <include ignore_missing="yes" deprecated="yes">~/.fonts.conf</include>

The new locations to store settings appear to be:

    $HOME/.config/fontconfig/conf.d
    $HOME/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf