Ludovic Courtès transcribed 1.8K bytes: > Hello Tom, > > Tom Balzer <tbal...@ksu.edu> skribis: > > > Recently I installed libreoffice in my user profile, and found that all > > menus require the package 'font-gnu-freetype-ttf' in order to render > > correctly. Without this package, every character was rendered as a > > rectangle indicating a missing font. > > Every character in the body of the text, or every character in the UI? > > > From the manuals description of 'propagated-inputs', it seems like > > this font package would fit the use case: > > > >> Lastly, ‘propagated-inputs’ is similar to ‘inputs’, but the > >> specified packages will be automatically installed alongside > >> the package they belong to (*note ‘guix package’: > >> package-cmd-propagated-inputs, for information on how ‘guix > >> package’ deals with propagated inputs.) > >> > >> For example this is necessary when a C/C++ library needs > >> headers of another library to compile, or when a pkg-config > >> file refers to another one via its ‘Requires’ field. > > > > I asked on #guix, and one argument against including fonts in propagated > > inputs is to avoid packaging the font when 'pack'ing for another > > system. This to me is really an argument for including the fonts, since > > there is no guarantee that the other system is 'rational', so to > > speak. To create totally portable packages I would think including this > > font required to render the menus would make sense. > > I think it’s a borderline case. In a sense, the font is additional > material used as input by LO (and indeed LO is much less useful without > it, but it’s still LO), though I can also understand the other argument. > > My current inclination would be the status quo. Otherwise we’d have to > worry about fonts and artwork for Abiword, Inkscape, etc. as well. > > Thoughts? > > Ludo’. > >
What about an fontcache-service that basically is mcron running daily "fc-cache -f" or even "fc-cache -fr"? That would be the closest to a post-setup hook refreshing font caches like people could be used to from Archlinux etc. -- ng0 GnuPG: A88C8ADD129828D7EAC02E52E22F9BBFEE348588 GnuPG: https://krosos.org/dist/keys/ https://www.infotropique.org https://krosos.org
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