From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Kost Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: font-gnu-unifont: Call mkfontdir for pcf output Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 13:55:32 +0300 Message-ID: <8760kb7mfv.fsf@gmail.com> References: <20170205050306.3349-1-huang_ying_caritas@163.com> <87fujtdtdy.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87bmuhgc5a.fsf@163.com> <87o9ygg79g.fsf@163.com> <20170214185606.74b44bb2@scratchpost.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36804) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdxFJ-0005P3-GG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 05:55:38 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdxFG-0005Fd-G4 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 05:55:37 -0500 Received: from mail-lf0-x243.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c07::243]:36698) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdxFG-0005FT-9I for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 05:55:34 -0500 Received: by mail-lf0-x243.google.com with SMTP id h65so13099864lfi.3 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 02:55:32 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20170214185606.74b44bb2@scratchpost.org> (Danny Milosavljevic's message of "Tue, 14 Feb 2017 18:56:06 +0100") 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" To: Danny Milosavljevic Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Danny Milosavljevic (2017-02-14 18:56 +0100) wrote: > Hi, > >> One problem of this solution is that some font packages (for example, >> fonts-misc-misc) already have fonts.dir, to avoid conflict, it is better >> to remove fonts.dir in all font packages and generate fonts.dir in >> fonts-dir-file, I think that is good. But I don't know whether others >> think that is a good idea. > > If it can happen that multiple packages install to share/fonts/ > (certainly true for share/fonts/truetype and probably true for other > -directories) and fonts.dir then is conflicting (and doesn't > ever contain all the entries of the directory), I think that your idea > is very good (and how it was done before is dead wrong). I completely agree; removing all "fonts.dir" and "fonts.alias" files from packages and regenerating them at profile time looks like a good idea to me. -- Alex