Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts.

[zimoun]

Hi Marius,

Thank you for the patch.
I have tried it yet... maybe soon today.


On Sun, 17 May 2020 at 16:51, Marius Bakke <address@hidden> wrote:

> * gnu/packages/fontutils.scm (fontconfig)[replacement]: New field.
> (fontconfig/font-dejavu): New variable.
> ---
> Guix,
>
> This is a hack to make (some) fonts working when users don't have fonts
> specified in their system configuration, and (crucially) places where
> the fontconfig cache may be unavailable such as 'guix pack's.
>
> I'm not sure whether font-dejavu is a good replacement here.  Another
> approach could be to convert gs-fonts to TrueType or OpenType format.

Apparently, there is different fonts on master and core-updates, if yes why?

I mean, on my machine -- Guix on the top of Debian with font-dejavu
installed -- why does commit 4bdf4182fe (core-update merge) not
display correctly and the parent commit c81457a588 too but the other
parent commit 23a59b180b displays nicely?


All the best,
simon