Re: missing dependency for ungoogled-chromium

[Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org>]

Marius—

Je 25 Mar 11:09 skribis Marius:
> Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org> writes:
> 
> > Hello—
> >
> > In a relatively clean profile, Chromium
> > (ungoogled-chromium@80.0.3987.132-0.7e68f18) was crashing.  By
> > trial-and-error, I found out that the crash does not occur when
> > font-liberation is installed.
> >
> > Therefore, I propose to add font-liberation as a dependency to
> > ungoogled-chromium.  
> 
> Chromium needs _a_ font installed, not font-liberation specifically.
> 
> Not sure what to do about it.  Mention in the description perhaps?
> 
> Maybe guix-install.sh could recommend installing a few fonts when it
> finishes, as I guess few people read the manual section about fonts on
> foreign distribution these days?  Not very useful on servers though.

That's an option, but not strictly needed, because guix-install.sh
refers to the Guix manual.

It is clearly described in the installation manual ("Application
Setup").  As long as I have not set up at least a dozen of clean user
profiles, I don't know it by heart so I'll try to remember to go
through this section.

Maybe there should be a link to "Application Setup" from the "After
System Installation" section.  Not that I read that section, but at
least everyone should've come across "Application Setup", no matter they
installed the tarball or Guix System.

—Marco