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Say what the fontconfig measurement did not cover The block claimed a measurement on a built server image while a comment further down said no server image was built for the change. Weaken the claim to what the evidence supports and keep the limit.
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Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Author: Max Johnson <me@maxj.phd> · 2026-08-23 20:48 UTC
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Commit: 38f4fd6d3157c470f4ad340ac58d93308fc7b373
Parent: fcd988b
1 file changed, +8 insertions, -6 deletions
M Containerfile +8 -6
@@ -1071,12 +1071,14 @@
1071 1071 # /etc/skel/.config/fontconfig, so `HOME=/etc/skel fc-match monospace` on a
1072 1072 # server image answers Adwaita Mono, the base's face, and not Alloy's.
1073 1073 #
1074 - # Measured on the built server image before removing anything (2026-08-19):
1075 - # the only binaries that link libfontconfig are fontconfig's own fc-* tools,
1076 - # and no installed package requires it. The base has none either, so declining
1077 - # to install it here is what actually removes it rather than a line that a
1078 - # dependency quietly puts back. It takes 784 KiB of tools, 120 KiB of cache and
1079 - # the 208 KiB of faces below with it.
1074 + # Measured before removing anything (2026-08-19): the only binaries that link
1075 + # libfontconfig are fontconfig's own fc-* tools, and no installed package
1076 + # requires it. The base has none either, so declining to install it here is
1077 + # what actually removes it rather than a line that a dependency quietly puts
1078 + # back. It takes 784 KiB of tools, 120 KiB of cache and the 208 KiB of faces
1079 + # below with it. What the measurement does not cover is a server-profile
1080 + # image: none was built for this change, so what a server image ends up
1081 + # carrying is read off the package set rather than seen on disk.
1080 1082 #
1081 1083 # The `else` branch is the claim from the other side, and it is a real one: it
1082 1084 # holds that the base still ships no fontconfig, so this line is the only thing