On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:15:23PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> skribis: > >> Currently, fontconfig from Guix do not use '/etc/fonts/fonts.conf', > >> and hardcode ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts (which think is a bad idea). > > It has the advantage of working out-of-the-box for Guix on top of another > > distro. > But then by default it doesn’t use any of the host distro fonts, right?
I suppose not. Maybe my debian programs now use debian fonts, and my guix programs use guix fonts, and both work. > (I’m stealthily trying to get someone to write an answer that can be > copied in the manual: > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-05/msg00282.html>. Well, since I do not know what happens, but am simply happy with my setup that does seem to work for me, I am not going to add caveats to the manual! Andreas