Re: Suggest installing more fonts?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,  ghe@sdf.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 10:59:02 -0400
> 
> > You mean, a Debian user cannot simply download font files and install
> > them?  Are Debian users forced to use "apt get" etc.?  I'm surprised.
> 
> As a Debian user, I do think that I can "download font files and install
> them" and there's a good chance I can even do that "simply", but I have
> never needed to do that and would have to search for info about how to
> do it and I wouldn't be satisfied with the result because now those
> fonts wouldn't be kept up-to-date by the usual mechanisms.
> 
> So, while I'm not "forced" to use `apt`, I would first and foremost want
> to use `apt` and only resort to another solution if there's no
> other solution.

So Debian users are even less "free" in this regard than MS-Windows
users?  That's sad, isn't it?