missing dependency for ungoogled-chromium

missing dependency for ungoogled-chromium

[Marco van Hulten]

Hello—

In a relatively clean profile, Chromium
(ungoogled-chromium@80.0.3987.132-0.7e68f18) was crashing.  By
trial-and-error, I found out that the crash does not occur when
font-liberation is installed.

Therefore, I propose to add font-liberation as a dependency to
ungoogled-chromium.

—Marco

Re: missing dependency for ungoogled-chromium

[Martin Becze]

I submitted a patch awhile ago on this 
(https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/36632) but I couldn't figure out how 
to do it without propagating the input.


On 3/25/20 4:46 AM, Marco van Hulten wrote:
> Hello—
> 
> In a relatively clean profile, Chromium
> (ungoogled-chromium@80.0.3987.132-0.7e68f18) was crashing.  By
> trial-and-error, I found out that the crash does not occur when
> font-liberation is installed.
> 
> Therefore, I propose to add font-liberation as a dependency to
> ungoogled-chromium.
> 
> —Marco
> 

Re: missing dependency for ungoogled-chromium

[Marius Bakke]

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Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org> writes:

> Hello—
>
> In a relatively clean profile, Chromium
> (ungoogled-chromium@80.0.3987.132-0.7e68f18) was crashing.  By
> trial-and-error, I found out that the crash does not occur when
> font-liberation is installed.
>
> Therefore, I propose to add font-liberation as a dependency to
> ungoogled-chromium.

Chromium needs _a_ font installed, not font-liberation specifically.

Not sure what to do about it.  Mention in the description perhaps?

Maybe guix-install.sh could recommend installing a few fonts when it
finishes, as I guess few people read the manual section about fonts on
foreign distribution these days?  Not very useful on servers though.

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Re: missing dependency for ungoogled-chromium

[Marco van Hulten]

Marius—

Je 25 Mar 11:09 skribis Marius:
> Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org> writes:
> 
> > Hello—
> >
> > In a relatively clean profile, Chromium
> > (ungoogled-chromium@80.0.3987.132-0.7e68f18) was crashing.  By
> > trial-and-error, I found out that the crash does not occur when
> > font-liberation is installed.
> >
> > Therefore, I propose to add font-liberation as a dependency to
> > ungoogled-chromium.  
> 
> Chromium needs _a_ font installed, not font-liberation specifically.
> 
> Not sure what to do about it.  Mention in the description perhaps?
> 
> Maybe guix-install.sh could recommend installing a few fonts when it
> finishes, as I guess few people read the manual section about fonts on
> foreign distribution these days?  Not very useful on servers though.

That's an option, but not strictly needed, because guix-install.sh
refers to the Guix manual.

It is clearly described in the installation manual ("Application
Setup").  As long as I have not set up at least a dozen of clean user
profiles, I don't know it by heart so I'll try to remember to go
through this section.

Maybe there should be a link to "Application Setup" from the "After
System Installation" section.  Not that I read that section, but at
least everyone should've come across "Application Setup", no matter they
installed the tarball or Guix System.

—Marco

Re: missing dependency for ungoogled-chromium

[Marco van Hulten]

Je 25 Mar 16:12 skribis Marco:
> [...]
> Maybe there should be a link to "Application Setup" from the "After
> System Installation" section.  Not that I read that section, but at
> least everyone should've come across "Application Setup", no matter they
> installed the tarball or Guix System.

No, sorry.  Only the "X11 Fonts" and "Locales" subsections are probably
relevant for Guix System.  I see your point: maybe nothing should be
done.

—Marco