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Subject: Re: LibreOffice Fonts
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 22:41:44 +0000
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Tom Balzer transcribed 1.3K bytes:
>=20
> Hello -
>=20
> Recently I installed libreoffice in my user profile, and found that all
> menus require the package 'font-gnu-freetype-ttf' in order to render
> correctly. Without this package, every character was rendered as a
> rectangle indicating a missing font. From the manuals description of
> 'propagated-inputs', it seems like this font package would fit the use
> case:=20
>=20
> > Lastly, =E2=80=98propagated-inputs=E2=80=99 is similar to =E2=80=98inpu=
ts=E2=80=99, but the
> > specified packages will be automatically installed alongside
> > the package they belong to (*note =E2=80=98guix package=E2=80=99:
> > package-cmd-propagated-inputs, for information on how =E2=80=98guix
> > package=E2=80=99 deals with propagated inputs.)
> >=20
> > For example this is necessary when a C/C++ library needs
> > headers of another library to compile, or when a pkg-config
> > file refers to another one via its =E2=80=98Requires=E2=80=99 field.
>=20
> I asked on #guix, and one argument against including fonts in propagated
> inputs is to avoid packaging the font when 'pack'ing for another
> system. This to me is really an argument for including the fonts, since
> there is no guarantee that the other system is 'rational', so to
> speak. To create totally portable packages I would think including this
> font required to render the menus would make sense.
>=20
> Thanks,
> Tom
>=20
>=20

I have a problem with making decision on default fonts. What if someone
doesn't want gnu-freetype-ttf? It is not just only this font, you can use
any font and sometimes this will depend on fc-cache -fv which is mentioned
in the documentation.
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