Tom Balzer transcribed 1.3K bytes:
> 
> Hello -
> 
> 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: 
> 
> > Lastly, ‘propagated-inputs’ is similar to ‘inputs’, but the
> > specified packages will be automatically installed alongside
> > the package they belong to (*note ‘guix package’:
> > package-cmd-propagated-inputs, for information on how ‘guix
> > package’ deals with propagated inputs.)
> > 
> > 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 ‘Requires’ field.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom
> 
> 

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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