From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Kost Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] profiles: Add fonts-dir-file hook. Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2016 22:19:25 +0300 Message-ID: <87lh1jalvm.fsf@gmail.com> References: <20160701092730.2265-1-alezost@gmail.com> <20160701092730.2265-3-alezost@gmail.com> <87fursf6rf.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33473) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bJQRx-00021T-8Y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2016 15:19:34 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bJQRs-0000xw-5x for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2016 15:19:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87fursf6rf.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Sat, 02 Jul 2016 16:34:44 +0200") 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: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ludovic Court=C3=A8s (2016-07-02 17:34 +0300) wrote: > Alex Kost skribis: > >> * guix/profiles.scm (fonts-dir-file): New procedure. >> (%default-profile-hooks): Add it. > > [...] > > A potential problem with this hook is that it pulls mkfontscale and > mkfontdir regardless of whether they are needed; I can=E2=80=99t really t= hink of > a way to avoid it though. Yes, I also don't like it. We have the same problem with 'info-file-dir' hook: it always pulls texinfo and gzip, but not all profiles include info manuals. > Also, how does it relate to this: > > commit bf9655f57d2442d56661594b80f6d0031ca0ae73 > Author: Eric Bavier > Date: Mon Oct 19 06:44:23 2015 -0500 > > font-alias: Install dummy fonts.dir files. > > * gnu/packages/xorg.scm (font-alias)[arguments]: New 'install-fonts= -dir' > phase. > > ? It doesn't relate at all. This hook generates "fonts.dir" only for "share/fonts/truetype" directory. Directories with X fonts are not touched, because all sub-directories of "share/fonts/X11" already contain "fonts.dir" files (font-adobe75dpi, font-misc-misc and other X font packages install "fonts.dir"). 'font-alias' package does not contain fonts.dir file because it doesn't make sense: this package does not provide any font. It just installs "fonts.alias" files inside "share/fonts/X11/{75dpi,100dpi,cyrillic,misc}" directories. Eric made this commit for one particular case: to make it possible to use font aliases in the default X server configuration ('xorg-configuration-file' in (gnu services xorg) module). Just to mention, I think we shouldn't modify 'font-alias' package as it leads to a bug , and should do some other workaround. I have 2 ideas (not sure if they make any sense): 1) To add a special package (font-alias-with-fonts.dir) that will be used in 'xorg-configuration-file'. 2) To do 'union-build' on packages with X fonts and aliases and to use it in the X config. With this, we can revert that Eric's commit, and everything should just work (I mean the X config will work and the bug will be fixed). --=20 Alex