Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: fontconfig
Two issues in fontconfig 50-user.conf and 51-local.conf.
In /etc/fonts/conf.d there is a file named "50-user.conf" that loads the user's
own ~/.fonts.conf file.
There is also 51-local.conf that is supposed to load local configuration
elements.
The directives in these two files are overridden by up to 14 more root-
owned imutable configuration files, most of which are user-impacting,
therefore the user as well as the site adminsitrator are both left
without the ability to make some important font choices.
The /etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf and
/etc/fonts/conf.avail/50-user.conf should be moved to the last possible
location, such as 98-user.conf and 99-user.conf so the user and the site
administrator both have the opportunity to override any configuration
element in fontconfig without becoming "root" and adjusting
/etc/fonts/conf.d directly.
I have tested this to be true in Ubuntu 7.10 gutsy.
This also serious affects KDE which uses ~/.fonts.conf exclusively for
font configuration (GNOME uses gconf instead and the problems are
somewhat avoidable in GNOME).
** Affects: fontconfig (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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user's ~/.fonts.conf should be made authoritative
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/200713
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