From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] profiles: Add fonts-dir-file hook.
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2016 22:41:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874m825zbh.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r3b8w40o.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Tue, 05 Jul 2016 16:31:03 +0200")
Ludovic Courtès (2016-07-05 17:31 +0300) wrote:
> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:
[...]
>> 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 <http://bugs.gnu.org/22100>, 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).
>
> Could you discuss it with 22100@debbugs.gnu.org and Cc: Eric? I’m not
> sure I’m competent enough to comment, so I’d rather let you and Eric
> figure out what needs to be done. :-)
OK, I think I should try to make a patch at first to show what I mean.
--
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-06 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-01 9:27 [PATCH 0/3] Generate "<profile>/share/fonts/truetype/fonts.dir" file Alex Kost
2016-07-01 9:27 ` [PATCH 1/3] gnu: mkfontdir: Do not propagate 'mkfontscale' Alex Kost
2016-07-02 14:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-01 9:27 ` [PATCH 2/3] profiles: Add fonts-dir-file hook Alex Kost
2016-07-02 14:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-02 19:19 ` Alex Kost
2016-07-05 14:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-06 19:41 ` Alex Kost [this message]
2016-07-22 6:59 ` Alex Kost
2016-07-24 17:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-25 14:26 ` Alex Kost
2016-07-01 9:27 ` [PATCH 3/3] doc: Describe how to make X server find TrueType fonts Alex Kost
2016-07-02 14:38 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-02 19:22 ` Alex Kost
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