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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#38498: Fontconfig does not find fonts in non-default profiles
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 17:53:13 +0100
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To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>, 38498@debbugs.gnu.org

Hello!

Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> skribis:

> We lose generality in making ~/.guix-profile special.

I think we all agree on that.  Fontconfig is one of the very few cases
where we ended up resorting to that.  The reason I think is simply that
Fontconfig honors ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.xml but does not honor a
search path environment variable as is customary.

We could fix that by adding a patch so that Fontconfig would honor
$FONTCONFIG_FONT_PATH or similar.

WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.