bug#38498: closed (Fontconfig does not find fonts in non-default profiles)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Fontconfig does not find fonts in non-default profiles Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 11:43:34 +0100

The fontconfig package has this bit:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(string-append "--with-add-fonts="
  "~/.guix-profile/share/fonts,"
  "/run/current-system/profile/share/fonts")
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

If I understand correctly, fonts can only be installed at the system
level or in ~/.guix-profile.

Is there a way to install fonts in a non-default profile?
If not, it would be nice to implement it.  Can we use an environment variable?

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> Hi Pierre,
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> Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:
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> > The fontconfig package has this bit:
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> > (string-append "--with-add-fonts="
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> >   "/run/current-system/profile/share/fonts")
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> > If I understand correctly, fonts can only be installed at the system
> > level or in ~/.guix-profile.
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> This is no longer true, since commit
> c738a054cac00441a4f697f0b40705d0b3f4a7a7, which allowed fontconfig to
> find fonts via a search path specification using XDG_DATA_DIRS.
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> Closing.
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> Maxim
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