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Fontconfig does not find fonts in non-default profiles

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
Subject: bug#38498: closed (Re: bug#38498: Fontconfig does not find fonts
 in non-default profiles)
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2022 14:27:02 +0000

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Your bug report

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

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

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 38498 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: 38498-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38498: Fontconfig does not find fonts in non-default profiles
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2022 10:26:29 -0400

Hi Pierre,

Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz> 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

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From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Fontconfig does not find fonts in non-default profiles
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 11:43:34 +0100

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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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Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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