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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: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 15:08:03 +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:

> Just read this:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/issues/126
>
> Could we do the following: use a profile hook to generate a config file
> and set the environment variable FONTCONFIG_FILE to this file?

I guess that would work.

> (I feel that we can't do that because the path of the hook-generated
> cannot be known in advance.)

=E2=80=98FONTCONFIG_FILE=E2=80=99 could be a search path of =E2=80=98fontco=
nfig=E2=80=99 (the usual
way), but then we=E2=80=99d hit <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/22138>,
meaning that it would not be set automatically.

Thoughts?

Ludo=E2=80=99.