Package: fontconfig
Version: 2.6.0-4
Severity: wishlist

Noting that upgrading fontconfig makes my laptop hard to use for several
minutes, I examined the messages,

Setting up gcc-4.3 (4.3.3-11) ...
Setting up fontconfig-config (2.6.0-4) ...
Setting up libfontconfig1 (2.6.0-4) ...
Setting up fontconfig (2.6.0-4) ...
Updating font configuration of fontconfig...
Cleaning up category cid..
Cleaning up category truetype..
Cleaning up category type1..
Updating category type1..
Updating category truetype..
Updating category cid..
Updating fontconfig cache for /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dustin 
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-xfree86-nonfree 
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-xfree86-nonfree-syriac 
/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts-wadalab-mincho /usr/share/fonts/truetype/baekmuk 
/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts-wadalab-gothic /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts 
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unifont /usr/share/fonts/type1/cyrillic 
/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts-wadalab-common 
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont 
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/arhangai /usr/share/fonts/truetype/arphic 
/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts
Updating fontconfig cache for /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dustin 
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-xfree86-nonfree 
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-xfree86-nonfree-syriac 
/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts-wadalab-mincho /usr/share/fonts/truetype/baekmuk 
/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts-wadalab-gothic /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts 
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unifont /usr/share/fonts/type1/cyrillic 
/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts-wadalab-common 
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont 
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/arhangai /usr/share/fonts/truetype/arphic 
/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts
Regenerating fonts cache... done.
Setting up ttf-opensymbol (1:3.1.0-5) ...
Updating fontconfig cache...
Setting up grub-common (1.96+20090611-1) ...

Observations:
1. Either the "Updating fontconfig cache" process is being run twice, or
at least its message is being shown twice.

2. Perhaps the fc-cache command should use nice(1)
$ top
 PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
7960 root      20   0  5192 2584 1224 R  8.0  0.5   0:07.59 fc-cache



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