bug#41174: [PATCH] gnu: webkitgtk: Add patch to share all fonts.

[Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us>]

On Tue, 26 May 2020, Leo Prikler wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I don't see anything in the patch itself, that is specific to Guix, so
> it should probably work upstream as well.  This issue is likely going
> to affect other functional package managers like Nix too, so it would
> be nice, if we can get the patch to be accepted upstream.  However, it
> does add a specific exception just for fonts, while other resources are
> still taken from XDG_DATA_HOME.  As such, it is still rather an ad-hoc
> solution to a very specific annoyance than something "general".

Ah, I see. I missed the special exception for fonts.

> I'm also not quite sure, whether this could cause problems with the
> number of arguments being passed to the bwrap process exceeding some
> limit.  It has not yet come up so far, but I thought I'd mention it.
> However, if it does, we're going to be the first to notice with our
> huge environment variables, so that's probably a bigger deal here than
> elsewhere.

I don't think this should be a problem. bwrap supports having its 
arguments passed over a file describer (with the --args option), and this 
is what WebKitGTK does.

Best,
Jack