ng0 writes: > I have a problem with making decision on default fonts. What if someone > doesn't want gnu-freetype-ttf? It is not just only this font, you can use > any font and sometimes this will depend on fc-cache -fv which is mentioned > in the documentation.
By 'in the documentation', do you mean the documentation for how fonts work in guix, or libreoffice's documentation? If the latter, then yes I see that you could start libreoffice with a gtk theme definition to control the fonts, allowing for other font choices. But in the case where one just launched libre office, wouldn't you expect that it 'works' running out of just the package files? If you include no font that wouldn't work, which seems like sacrificing basic functionality in order to avoid including a font that someone might not desire. Couldn't that argument be made for any features above bare minimum for any application? For instance, someone might not want a support library for emacs that enables viewing jpegs, but the default package supports this. I think that removing a feature from a package definition if you don't want a feature makes more sense than crippling a package with non-sane defaults. Tom
