Subject: bug#38498: closed (Re: bug#38498: Fontconfig does not find fonts in non-default profiles)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2022 14:27:02 +0000

Your bug report

#38498: Fontconfig does not find fonts in non-default profiles

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#38498: Fontconfig does not find fonts in non-default profiles
From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2022 10:26:29 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi Pierre,

Pierre Neidhardt <[email-masked]> writes:

> The fontconfig package has this bit:
>
> (string-append "--with-add-fonts="
>   "~/.guix-profile/share/fonts,"
>   "/run/current-system/profile/share/fonts")
>
> If I understand correctly, fonts can only be installed at the system
> level or in ~/.guix-profile.

This is no longer true, since commit
c738a054cac00441a4f697f0b40705d0b3f4a7a7, which allowed fontconfig to
find fonts via a search path specification using XDG_DATA_DIRS.

Closing.

Maxim

Subject: Fontconfig does not find fonts in non-default profiles
From: Pierre Neidhardt <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 11:43:34 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

The fontconfig package has this bit:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(string-append "--with-add-fonts="
  "~/.guix-profile/share/fonts,"
  "/run/current-system/profile/share/fonts")
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

If I understand correctly, fonts can only be installed at the system
level or in ~/.guix-profile.

Is there a way to install fonts in a non-default profile?
If not, it would be nice to implement it.  Can we use an environment variable?

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