Font caching no longer runs as root

Contributed by rueda on 2025-07-17 from the right-and-tight dept.

In a series of commits, Anthony J Bentley (bentley@) modified the system so that font caching runs as dedicated (unprivileged) user, "_fc-cache".

fc-cache(1) has been using pledge(2) since May.

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