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Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of
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Marius Bakke |
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Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts. |
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Wed, 20 May 2020 13:28:13 +0200 |
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Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
> On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 04:50:12PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote:
>> This is a hack to make (some) fonts working when users don't have fonts
>> specified in their system configuration, and (crucially) places where
>> the fontconfig cache may be unavailable such as 'guix pack's.
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>> I'm not sure whether font-dejavu is a good replacement here. Another
>> approach could be to convert gs-fonts to TrueType or OpenType format.
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>> Thoughts? I don't know much about fonts and would appreciate feedback.
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> I think you should push right away, assuming that it helps and doesn't
> rebuild the world.
Someone on #guix wanted to test it, so I've attached the patch here
again to this message.
Will push later today unless anyone objects. Though I'm still not
convinced 'font-dejavu' is a good replacement for 'gs-fonts'.
> The gs-fonts are important for printing so we might need a real fix
> later but for now a quick fix is the right thing.
The print infrastructure (CUPS, ghostscript) does not use Pango, so I
think gs-fonts still work there.
Might be difficult to work with when the end user applications don't
recognize them though.
What do you expect from a "real fix"?
0001-gnu-fontconfig-Add-replacement-with-font-dejavu-inst.patch
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