> VLC in a nutshell: Rebuilding fonts... I wonder if this is still a problem (I haven't used VLC in a while.) That message box is shown when fontconfig rebuild

> VLC in a nutshell: Rebuilding fonts... I wonder if this is still a problem (I haven't used VLC in a while.) That message box is shown when fontconfig rebuilds its font cache, but libass has been able to run without fontconfig since 0.13.0 (October 2015.) I guess it depends on whether the current release version of VLC still needs it.