Hi Pierre,
Pierre Neidhardt writes:
> The fontconfig package has this bit:
>
> (string-append "--with-add-fonts="
> "~/.guix-profile/share/fonts,"
> "/run/current-system/profile/share/fonts")
>
> If I understand correctly, fonts can only be installed at the system
> level or in
Hi Bengt,
On Sun, 15 Dec 2019 at 23:15, Bengt Richter wrote:
> How about an interplanetary font folder? cf. IPLD[1] :-)
I am not sure it is related to the issue discussed here, IMHO.
However, if you are interested in IPFS stuff, give a look at this
patch [#] because it still needs some love
Hi Guix,
On +2019-12-13 14:11:13 +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> Just read this:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/issues/126
>
> Could we do the following: use a profile hook to generate a config file
> and set the environment variable FONTCONFIG_FILE to this file?
>
> (I
Hello,
Pierre Neidhardt skribis:
> Just read this:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/issues/126
>
> Could we do the following: use a profile hook to generate a config file
> and set the environment variable FONTCONFIG_FILE to this file?
I guess that would work.
> (I feel
Hi!
Pierre Neidhardt skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>
>> We could fix that by adding a patch so that Fontconfig would honor
>> $FONTCONFIG_FONT_PATH or similar.
>
> Have we ever asked upstream? Maybe they would consider adding it.
> If they don't, I'm in favour of a patch! :)
I don’t
Hi!
Ludovic Courtès writes:
> We could fix that by adding a patch so that Fontconfig would honor
> $FONTCONFIG_FONT_PATH or similar.
Have we ever asked upstream? Maybe they would consider adding it.
If they don't, I'm in favour of a patch! :)
--
Pierre Neidhardt
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Hello!
Pierre Neidhardt skribis:
> We lose generality in making ~/.guix-profile special.
I think we all agree on that. Fontconfig is one of the very few cases
where we ended up resorting to that. The reason I think is simply that
Fontconfig honors ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.xml but does not
Pierre Neidhardt (2019-12-05 18:52 +0100) wrote:
> Thank you Alex, that's what I did and it works.
>
> That said, I think it'd be nice if Guix would automatically do this for
> us. After all, it already handles multiple-profiles properly for so
> many other things! :)
TBH I don't understand all
Pierre Neidhardt (2019-12-05 11:43 +0100) wrote:
> The fontconfig package has this bit:
>
> (string-append "--with-add-fonts="
> "~/.guix-profile/share/fonts,"
> "/run/current-system/profile/share/fonts")
>
> If I understand correctly, fonts can only be installed at the system
> level or in
