From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: Suggest add FAQ documents about integrating with other linux distribution. Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 22:18:41 +0200 Message-ID: <20150601201841.GA6637@debian> References: <38338fb2.bfb6.14d8a5dde4c.Coremail.tumashu@163.com> <874mn03exs.fsf@gnu.org> <87zj4qt8y0.fsf@gmail.com> <20150527154245.GA2968@debian> <87egm1dbfo.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34181) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YzWAd-0002jI-JC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2015 16:18:52 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YzWAZ-0003QL-JD for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2015 16:18:51 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87egm1dbfo.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-15?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix , Feng Shu On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:15:23PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Andreas Enge skribis: > >> Currently, fontconfig from Guix do not use '/etc/fonts/fonts.conf', > >> and hardcode ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts (which think is a bad idea). > > It has the advantage of working out-of-the-box for Guix on top of another > > distro. > But then by default it doesn’t use any of the host distro fonts, right? I suppose not. Maybe my debian programs now use debian fonts, and my guix programs use guix fonts, and both work. > (I’m stealthily trying to get someone to write an answer that can be > copied in the manual: > . Well, since I do not know what happens, but am simply happy with my setup that does seem to work for me, I am not going to add caveats to the manual! Andreas