From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Huang\, Ying" Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: font-gnu-unifont: Call mkfontdir for pcf output Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 19:51:38 +0800 Message-ID: <87zihnsmd1.fsf@163.com> References: <20170205050306.3349-1-huang_ying_caritas@163.com> <87fujtdtdy.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87bmuhgc5a.fsf@163.com> <87o9ygg79g.fsf@163.com> <20170214185606.74b44bb2@scratchpost.org> <8760kb7mfv.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49988) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdy7w-0006vO-Ew for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 06:52:05 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdy7r-0004Pd-Fa for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 06:52:04 -0500 Received: from m12-17.163.com ([220.181.12.17]:42134) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdy7q-0004OW-SH for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 06:51:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: <8760kb7mfv.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Kost's message of "Wed, 15 Feb 2017 13:55:32 +0300") 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: Alex Kost , =?utf-8?B?5a6L5paH5q2m?= , Danny Milosavljevic Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi, All, Alex Kost writes: > Danny Milosavljevic (2017-02-14 18:56 +0100) wrote: > >> Hi, >> >>> One problem of this solution is that some font packages (for example, >>> fonts-misc-misc) already have fonts.dir, to avoid conflict, it is better >>> to remove fonts.dir in all font packages and generate fonts.dir in >>> fonts-dir-file, I think that is good. But I don't know whether others >>> think that is a good idea. >> >> If it can happen that multiple packages install to share/fonts/ >> (certainly true for share/fonts/truetype and probably true for other >> -directories) and fonts.dir then is conflicting (and doesn't >> ever contain all the entries of the directory), I think that your idea >> is very good (and how it was done before is dead wrong). > > I completely agree; removing all "fonts.dir" and "fonts.alias" files > from packages and regenerating them at profile time looks like a good > idea to me. Good to know this. I will implement it as this. Best Regards, Huang, Ying