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

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2022 10:26:29 -0400

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