From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ng0 Subject: Re: LibreOffice Fonts Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 15:05:04 +0000 Message-ID: <20171002150504.73bagyq4hrmx22ip@abyayala> References: <8760c3g7w9.fsf@ksu.edu> <87bmlpppv6.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="xq5e35cyuncoocbr" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33408) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dz2IC-0003Ih-Cp for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2017 11:06:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dz2I2-0003IB-SS for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2017 11:06:00 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87bmlpppv6.fsf@gnu.org> 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, Tom Balzer --xq5e35cyuncoocbr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ludovic Court=C3=A8s transcribed 1.8K bytes: > Hello Tom, >=20 > Tom Balzer skribis: >=20 > > 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. >=20 > Every character in the body of the text, or every character in the UI? >=20 > > From the manuals description of 'propagated-inputs', it seems like > > this font package would fit the use case: > > > >> Lastly, =E2=80=98propagated-inputs=E2=80=99 is similar to =E2=80=98inp= uts=E2=80=99, but the > >> specified packages will be automatically installed alongside > >> the package they belong to (*note =E2=80=98guix package=E2=80=99: > >> package-cmd-propagated-inputs, for information on how =E2=80=98guix > >> package=E2=80=99 deals with propagated inputs.) > >>=20 > >> 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 =E2=80=98Requires=E2=80=99 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. >=20 > I think it=E2=80=99s a borderline case. In a sense, the font is addition= al > material used as input by LO (and indeed LO is much less useful without > it, but it=E2=80=99s still LO), though I can also understand the other ar= gument. >=20 > My current inclination would be the status quo. Otherwise we=E2=80=99d h= ave to > worry about fonts and artwork for Abiword, Inkscape, etc. as well. >=20 > Thoughts? >=20 > Ludo=E2=80=99. >=20 >=20 What about an fontcache-service that basically is mcron running daily "fc-cache -f" or even "fc-cache -fr"? That would be the closest to a post-setup hook refreshing font caches like people could be used to from Archlinux etc. --=20 ng0 GnuPG: A88C8ADD129828D7EAC02E52E22F9BBFEE348588 GnuPG: https://krosos.org/dist/keys/ https://www.infotropique.org https://krosos.org --xq5e35cyuncoocbr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCgAdFiEEqIyK3RKYKNfqwC5S4i+bv+40hYgFAlnSVZ8ACgkQ4i+bv+40 hYicUBAAm4Kr9OUGBe9chvNapP9QcAafhkIERgAgr6bxClbJIdZjYFJLvQrg7QDO 9TQzVndNjSvtF1Fe1Kxm6sCV2005nx41oSeLIXCbLt8Jny1WAoRb/0Eot9nxezZB U3tmjBPdpa3OFSQckvrRUsaOFdZ850Y69TmUaeAGTODB22hTjOlYUJhtFR6D5xwr 5lnUq/3LawVg2tONtiUfoPXZfBlXaIytLhX0uX2q84X0P8rFxRgcNuQS89EiYjBF cUWMI28ur1urnTVwut9XqJ2KSxj8vzVl1kNdrwQZzp98vSgy3VQESD0+axLoAtcU k9U3xiiV3mrPJlr1Vyp7iTurg9WScyCDzHNj06O22blzrJy+ZDOceaq8LQJ6DRed qQUNnfZJD0EWLhB5Y3g5ACn3EOpnz5lRmdBG2lq/FWOIdN2R6jFO5AfdPcsXDXty SRsIx3kvR7D84cJwgHrXrv6yMJHQIfKSB4Ho7ue7cx1r+FYcBDUBoyyRAW2w+zgv uUU2zGtbsihm0Vw+CRnGVuRgIkZE1ox8zwU/8+4AGsgaWE1Vq38Dg0yKro1nMkql CtQUBePoMKJEQwEXTDhQTjNUpwz0dB8vE8j/8AGN19yiTdXnTbAe9CD7m6zeY8ua /f5EI5vHlJY9Kuz0Au3qDWtWA/4fAPHatX6mHgalz57MkdOAP1s= =F7b8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xq5e35cyuncoocbr--