svn commit: r530516 - in head: . x11-fonts/fontconfig x11-fonts/fontconfig-reference x11-fonts/fontconfig/files

[Adam Weinberger]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 2:04 PM Tobias C. Berner <tcberner at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> --- head/UPDATING       Fri Apr  3 18:46:25 2020        (r530515)
> +++ head/UPDATING       Fri Apr  3 20:02:24 2020        (r530516)
> @@ -5,6 +5,16 @@ they are unavoidable.
>  You should get into the habit of checking this file for changes each time
>  you update your ports collection, before attempting any port upgrades.
>
> +20200403:
> +  AFFECTS: users of x11-fonts/fontconfig
> +  AUTHOR: desktop at FreeBSD.org
> +
> +  Fontconfig 2.13.1 generated .uuid files in the fonts directory which where
> +  not properly registered to the packages. To clean them up, please execute the
> +  following command:
> +
> +       find %%LOCALBASE%%/share/fonts -type f -name .uuid -delete

I may be wrong about this (please speak up if I am!), but I suspect
that "%%LOCALBASE%%" isn't a useful construct to end-users. End-users
are less likely to know that "%%LOCALBASE%% is substituted in plist
files to ${LOCALBASE}, which is /usr/local by default" than users
who've set LOCALBASE to a new location will know that paths in
UPDATING messages need to be modified for their system.

I think we can make things clearer for users by just using /usr/local,
and tailoring UPDATING messages to be immediately usable by the
greatest percentage of users.

# Adam


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