Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 04:50:12PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote:
>> This is a hack to make (some) fonts working when users don't have fonts
>> specified in their system configuration, and (crucially) places where
>> the fontconfig cache may be unavailable such as 'guix pack's.
>> 
>> I'm not sure whether font-dejavu is a good replacement here.  Another
>> approach could be to convert gs-fonts to TrueType or OpenType format.
>> 
>> Thoughts?  I don't know much about fonts and would appreciate feedback.
>
> I think you should push right away, assuming that it helps and doesn't
> rebuild the world.

Someone on #guix wanted to test it, so I've attached the patch here
again to this message.

Will push later today unless anyone objects.  Though I'm still not
convinced 'font-dejavu' is a good replacement for 'gs-fonts'.

> The gs-fonts are important for printing so we might need a real fix
> later but for now a quick fix is the right thing.

The print infrastructure (CUPS, ghostscript) does not use Pango, so I
think gs-fonts still work there.

Might be difficult to work with when the end user applications don't
recognize them though.

What do you expect from a "real fix"?