From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggest installing more fonts? Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 20:56:06 +0300 Message-ID: <83wnzgj07d.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wnzqa1be.fsf@gnus.org> <83y2k6v378.fsf@gnu.org> <87eely5mof.fsf@gnus.org> <83o8l2utb5.fsf@gnu.org> <874kmt1icl.fsf@gnus.org> <83o8l1teo3.fsf@gnu.org> <87tuusklki.fsf@gnus.org> <83tuurr24j.fsf@gnu.org> <87y2k2fwgu.fsf@gnus.org> <83pn5ep8x0.fsf@gnu.org> <87zh4hi43l.fsf@gnus.org> <83eeltnf3b.fsf@gnu.org> <87sga7kg9s.fsf@gnus.org> <83tuunmy97.fsf@gnu.org> <87lffyijie.fsf@gnus.org> <87mu0eo434.fsf@gnus.org> <83tuuml74k.fsf@gnu.org> <87lffxi5k2.fsf@gnus.org> <83eelpjj4j.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32331"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ghe@sdf.org, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 23 19:57:23 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kW1Jb-0008GU-GB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2020 19:57:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42556 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kW1Ja-0005Zg-II for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2020 13:57:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40572) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kW1Ic-0004ex-6A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2020 13:56:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:55268) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kW1Ia-0004Mj-UB; Fri, 23 Oct 2020 13:56:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4825 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kW1Ia-0004et-9v; Fri, 23 Oct 2020 13:56:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 23 Oct 2020 10:59:02 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:258373 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen , ghe@sdf.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 10:59:02 -0400 > > > You mean, a Debian user cannot simply download font files and install > > them? Are Debian users forced to use "apt get" etc.? I'm surprised. > > As a Debian user, I do think that I can "download font files and install > them" and there's a good chance I can even do that "simply", but I have > never needed to do that and would have to search for info about how to > do it and I wouldn't be satisfied with the result because now those > fonts wouldn't be kept up-to-date by the usual mechanisms. > > So, while I'm not "forced" to use `apt`, I would first and foremost want > to use `apt` and only resort to another solution if there's no > other solution. So Debian users are even less "free" in this regard than MS-Windows users? That's sad, isn't it?