On Thu, Apr 25, 2019, at 07:48, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote:
> I'm not in favor of this. I think this should be fixed upstream.
>
> Now that there has been a release of dwm and dmenu with the workaround it
> should be removed I think.
>
> There is no nice workaround except making the code more ugly. Should every
> project using fontconfig add this stupid workaround? I don't think so. One of
> the things that flow from the UNIX philosophy as I see it is solving things at
> the appropriate layer (or try to).
I don't think anyone disagrees with that in principle, but it seems
that an upstream fix is not forthcoming, because reasons. A simple
workaround is better than a crash.
This seems like a good example where practicality should beat purity.
Received on Wed Apr 24 2019 - 21:56:01 CEST