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 21:23:43 +0300 Message-ID: <83lffwiyxc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wnzqa1be.fsf@gnus.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> <83wnzgj07d.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35548"; 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 20:24:52 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 1kW1kB-00099s-Tk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2020 20:24:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58630 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kW1kA-0000kv-Ub for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2020 14:24:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47574) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kW1jM-0000Hx-D5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2020 14:24:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:55977) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kW1jK-0008Eo-QW; Fri, 23 Oct 2020 14:23:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2557 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kW1jK-0001bW-Ai; Fri, 23 Oct 2020 14:23:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 23 Oct 2020 14:13:24 -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:258382 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: larsi@gnus.org, ghe@sdf.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 14:13:24 -0400 > > >> 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? > > Not sure what you mean by that. > > Basically, what I was saying is that "simply downloading and installing" > (the fact that it was applied to fonts doesn't make much difference in > this respect) sounds to me like pulling my own teeth: I'm "free" to do > it, but I would look for other solutions first. Which is sub-optimal, since it sounds like the facilities to search the DB of installable packages is limited, whereas the facilities we have for finding fonts on the Internet are very powerful and accurate. So the ability to download a font and install it sounds very useful.