
Any reasonably new version of fontconfig does search that path by default, and setting this globally causes problems, as 2.10 and 2.11 need incompatible configs. Tested: slim+xfce desktop, chrootenv-ed steam. I have no idea why we were setting the global variable; e.g., neither Fedora nor Ubuntu does that.
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